INFERIOR

inferior

Noun

  1. a person of lower stature to another
    As you are my inferior, I can tell you to do anything I want.

Adjective

  1. of lower quality
    Anna had always felt inferior to her brother due to poor school grades.
  2. of lower rank
    an inferior officer
  3. located below
  4. 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.
  5. On the side of a flower which is next to the bract; anterior.
  6. Nearer to the Sun than the Earth is.
    the inferior or interior planets; an inferior conjunction of Mercury or Venus
  7. Below the horizon.
    the inferior part of a meridian


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