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of low quality, or of lower quality or rank than something else — sometimes used as a noun to refer to a person of lower rank or statusLess commonly, specialized senses include:
- anatomy and botany — a lower position on a body or plant (or pointed downward)
- typography — a character that drops beneath a printing line (such as with subscript)
- astronomy — having an orbit relative to the sun that is lower than earth's (making Mercury and Venus inferior planets)
- Nazis believed other races were inferior.
inferior = of lower quality
- She was rude and treated them as intellectual inferiors.
- George Washington believed Native Americans were equals, but that their society was inferior.
- She argued that the statute treated women as inferior to men under the law—which is unconstitutional.
- At the start of the war, all the American fighter planes were inferior to the Japanese Zero in maneuverability, dogfighting, and range.
- One of the many questions that have often bothered me is why women have been, and still are, thought to be so inferior to men.Anne Frank -- The Diary of a Young Girl
- The leaves are inferior and the sticks are brittle.Katherine Applegate -- The One and Only Ivan
- If you choose to demote me to an inferior post as a result of my failure, I hope I may accept it with grace.Frank Beddor -- The Looking Glass Wars
- Here was he, junior to the judge by perhaps twenty years, and yet with a vastly inferior sense of self-preservation.Agatha Christie -- And Then There Were None
- You're making him feel inferior and he can't take it.Daniel Keyes -- Flowers for Algernon — Novel
- "He became convinced that humans had devolved into progressively inferior beings," McKinney explains, "and it was his goal to return to a natural state."Jon Krakauer -- Into the Wild
- Central to the Japanese identity was the belief that it was Japan's divinely mandated right to rule its fellow Asians, whom it saw as inherently inferior.Laura Hillenbrand -- Unbroken
- They were given the new job, as custodians of our peace of mind, the focus of our understandable and rightful dread of being inferior; official censors, judges, and executors.Ray Bradbury -- Fahrenheit 451
- Wealth was an inferior object, but what glory would attend the discovery if I could banish disease from the human frame and render man invulnerable to any but a violent death!Mary Shelley -- Frankenstein
- But simultaneously, true to the Principles of doublethink, the Party taught that the proles were natural inferiors who must be kept in subjection, like animals, by the application of a few simple rules.George Orwell -- 1984
- Never was there a more beautiful example of how the majesty of age and wisdom may comport with the obeisance and respect enjoined upon it, as from a lower social rank, and inferior order of endowment, towards a higher.Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The Scarlet Letter
- I didn't want to add to his humiliations; I even sympathized with his trembling, goaded egotism he could no longer contain, the furious arrogance which sprang out now at the mere hint of opposition from someone he had at last found whom he could consider inferior to himself.John Knowles -- A Separate Peace
- He just doesn't have a goal, plus he thinks he's too stupid and inferior to ever achieve anything.Anne Frank -- The Diary of a Young Girl
- What most oppressed him was the consciousness of his own intellectual inferiority.George Orwell -- 1984
- Why should the fruit be held inferior to the flower?George Orwell -- 1984
inferiors = people who are of lower status
inferior = of lower quality
inferior = of lower quality or importance
inferior = of lower quality
inferior = of lower status or quality
inferior = of low quality
inferior = lower status or less important
inferior = less strong
inferior = of lower status or quality
inferior = of lower quality
inferior = of lower status and quality
inferior = of lower status or quality
inferior = of less importance
inferiors = people of lower quality
inferior = lower status or quality
inferior = of lower status
inferior = of low quality
inferiority = lower quality
inferior = of less importance
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