All 3 Uses of
inferior
in
A Room With A View
- Take the word of an old woman, Miss Lucy: you will never repent of a little civility to your inferiors.†
Chpt 2 *inferiors = People who are of lower rank or status
- It was not that ladies were inferior to men; it was that they were different.†
Chpt 4inferior = (adjective) of low quality, or of lower quality or rank than something else OR (more rarely as a noun) a person of lower rank or status
- And, equally of course, she felt sure that she would prove a nuisance, and begged to be given an inferior spare room—something with no view, anything.†
Chpt 14
Definitions:
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(1)
(inferior) 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
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
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)