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Definition

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 status

Less 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.

inferiors = people who are of lower status

George Washington believed Native Americans were equals, but that their society was inferior.

inferior = of lower quality

She argued that the statute treated women as inferior to men under the law—which is unconstitutional.

inferior = of lower quality or importance

At the start of the war, all the American fighter planes were inferior to the Japanese Zero in maneuverability, dogfighting, and range.

inferior = of lower quality

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

inferior = of lower status or quality

The leaves are inferior and the sticks are brittle.
Katherine Applegate -- The One and Only Ivan

inferior = of low quality

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

inferior = lower status or less important

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

inferior = less strong

You're making him feel inferior and he can't take it.
Daniel Keyes -- Flowers for Algernon — Novel

inferior = of lower status or quality

"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

inferior = of lower quality

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

inferior = of lower status and quality

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

inferior = of lower status or quality

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

inferior = of less importance

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

inferiors = people of lower quality

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

inferior = lower status or quality

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

inferior = of lower status

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

inferior = of low quality

What most oppressed him was the consciousness of his own intellectual inferiority.
George Orwell -- 1984

inferiority = lower quality

Why should the fruit be held inferior to the flower?
George Orwell -- 1984

inferior = of less importance

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