1. Of or characteristic of low rank or importance 
2. Of low or inferior quality 
3. Written or printed below and to one side of another character
   - subscript 
4. Having an orbit between the sun and the Earth's orbit
   "Mercury and Venus are inferior planets" 
5. Lower than a given reference point
   "inferior alveolar artery" 
6. Falling short of some prescribed norm
   - deficient, substandard

1. One of lesser rank or station or quality 
2. A character or symbol set or printed or written beneath or slightly below and to the side of another character
   - subscript

Derived forms: inferiors

See also: bad, base, bottom, bum, bush, bush-league, caliber [US], calibre [Brit, Cdn], cheap, cheapjack [N. Amer], cheesy, chintzy [N. Amer], coarse, coarsened, commercial, commercial-grade, common, crap [Brit], crumby, crummy, deplorable, execrable, humble, indifferent, inferiority, less, low, low-grade, low-level, lowly, mediocre, middle-level, miserable, modest, nonstandard, outclassed, punk, quality, ropey [Brit], ropy [Brit], scrawny, scrubby, second-class, second-rate, shoddy, shonky [Austral, NZ], sleazy, small, stunted, subordinate, tawdry, third-rate, tinny, utility, utility-grade, woeful, worst, wretched

Type of: character, follower, grapheme, graphic symbol

Antonym: superior

Encyclopedia: Inferior

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