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Inferior [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Lower in place.

2. Lower in station, age, or rank in life. Pay due respect to those who are superior in station, and due civility to those who are inferior

3. Lower in excellence or value; as a poem of inferior merit; cloth of inferior quality or price.

4. Subordinate; of less importance. Attend to health and safety; ease and convenience are inferior considerations.

Inferior [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. A person who is younger, or of a lower station or rank in society.

2. A person gets more by obliging his inferior than by disdaining him.

Inferior [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Lower in place, rank, excellence, etc.; less important or valuable; subordinate; underneath; beneath.

2. Poor or mediocre; as, an inferior quality of goods.

3. Nearer the sun than the earth is; as, the inferior or interior planets; an inferior conjunction of Mercury or Venus.

4. Below the horizon; as, the inferior part of a meridian.

5. 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.

6. On the side of a flower which is next the bract; anterior.

7. Junior or subordinate in rank; as, an inferior officer.

Inferior [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A person lower in station, rank, intellect, etc., than another.

Inferiority [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A lower state of dignity, age, value or quality. We speak of the inferiority of rank, of office, of talents, of age, of worth.

Inferiority Webster's Dictionary 1913

The state of being inferior; a lower state or condition; as, inferiority of rank, of talents, of age, of worth.

Inferiorly [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1913

In an inferior manner, or on the inferior part.

Inferiority Roget’s Thesaurus §34

N. inferiority, minority, subordinacy, shortcoming, deficiency, minimum, smallness, imperfection, lower quality, lower worth, commonalty

V. be inferior, fall short of, come short of, not pass, not come up to, want, become smaller, render smaller, (contract) 195, hide its diminished head, retire into the shade, yield the palm, play second fiddle, be upstaged, take a back seat

Adj. inferior, smaller, small, minor, less, lesser, deficient, minus, lower, subordinate, secondary, second-rate, sub, subaltern, thrown into the shade, weighed in the balance and found wanting, not fit to hold a candle to, can't hold a candle to, least, smallest &c. (see little, small ), lowest, diminished, reduced, unimportant

Adv. less, under the mark, below the mark, below par, at the bottom of the scale, at a low ebb, at a disadvantage, short of, under, changes in quantity

Imperfection Roget’s Thesaurus §651

N. imperfection, imperfectness, deficiency, inadequacy, peccancy, immaturity, fault, defect, weak point, screw loose, flaw, gap, twist, taint, attainder, bar sinister, hole in one's coat, blemish, weakness, half blood, shortcoming, drawback, seamy side, mediocrity, no great shakes, no great catch, not much to boast of, one-horse shay

V. be imperfect, have a defect, lie under a disadvantage, spring a leak, not pass muster, barely pass muster, fall short

Adj. imperfect, not perfect, deficient, defective, faulty, unsound, tainted, out of order, out of tune, cracked, leaky, sprung, warped, lame, injured, peccant, frail, inadequate, crude, incomplete, found wanting, below par, short- handed, below its full strength, under its full strength, below its full complement, indifferent, middling, ordinary, mediocre, average, so-so, coucicouci, milk and water, tolerable, fair, passable, pretty well, pretty good, rather good, moderately good, good, good enough, well enough, adequate, decent, not bad, not amiss, inobjectionable, unobjectionable, admissible, bearable, only better than nothing, secondary, inferior, second-rate, second-best, one-horse

Adv. almost &c, to a limited extent, rather, pretty, moderately, passing, only, considering, all things considered, enough

Phr. surgit amari aliquid