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
N. infant,
babe,
baby, babe in arms, nurseling,
suckling,
yearling,
weanling,
papoose,
bambino,
kid, vagitus, child,
bairn, little one,
brat,
chit,
pickaninny,
urchin,
bantling, bratling,
elf, youth, boy,
lad,
stripling,
youngster, youngun,
younker, callant,
whipster,
whippersnapper,
whiffet,
schoolboy,
hobbledehoy, hopeful,
cadet,
minor, master,
scion,
sap,
seedling,
tendril, olive branch,
nestling,
chicken,
larva,
chrysalis,
tadpole,
whelp,
cub,
pullet,
fry,
callow,
codlin,
codling,
foetus,
calf,
colt,
pup,
foal,
kitten, lamb,
lambkin,
aurelia,
caterpillar,
cocoon,
nymph,
nympha,
orphan,
pupa,
staddle,
girl,
lass,
lassie,
wench, miss,
damsel,
demoiselle,
maid,
maiden, virgin,
hoyden Adj. infantine,
infantile,
puerile,
boyish,
girlish,
childish,
babyish,
kittenish,
baby,
newborn,
unfledged, new-fledged,
callow, in the cradle, in swaddling clothes, in long clothes, in arms, in leading strings, at the breast, in one's teens
