All 6 Uses of

inferior
in
The Once and Future King

He did not understand this, but it made him feel unhappy, because Kay seemed to regard it as making him inferior in some way.†
Book 1

inferior = (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

I will not alter any of the parts which You gave me, for other and doubtless inferior tools, and I will stay a defenceless embryo all my life, doing my best to make myself a few feeble implements out of the wood, iron and the other materials which You have seen fit to put before me.†
Book 1

It is only people who are lacking, or bad, or inferior, who have to be good at things.†
Book 3

There were also three magic spindles, made out of the Eden tree, and two inferior swords for Percy and Bors.†
Book 3

They were the race, now represented by the Irish Republican Army rather than by the Scots Nationalists, who had always murdered landlords and blamed them for being murdered—the race which could make a national hero of a man like Lynchahaun, because he bit off a woman's nose and she a Gall—the race which had been expelled by the volcano of history into the far quarters of the globe, where, with a venomous sense of grievance and inferiority, they even nowadays proclaim their ancient megalomania.†
Book 4

inferiority = the state of being of low quality or of lower quality than something else

Nations were like people—they had feelings of inferiority, or of superiority, or of revenge, or of fear.†
Book 4 *

Definitions:

(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
(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)