inferior
Pronunciation: /ɪnˈfɪə.ɹi.ə/
The English word “inferior” has 13 meanings listed here.
adjective
- Lower in rank, status, or quality.
- Of low rank, standard or quality.
- (of a court or tribunal) Susceptible to having its decisions overturned by a higher court.
- Denoting goods or services which are in greater demand during a recession than in a boom, for example second-hand clothes.
- Situated further below (another part of the body), a direction that in humans corresponds to caudad.
- Situated in a relatively low posterior or ventral position in a quadrupedal body.
- Situated below some other organ (said of a calyx when free from the ovary, and therefore below it, or of an ovary with an adherent and therefore inferior calyx).
- On the side of a flower which is next to the bract.
- Printed in subscript.
- Below the horizon.
- Nearer to the Sun than the Earth is.
noun
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin īnferior (“lower in situation or place”), comparative of īnferus (“below, underneath”).
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