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. fewness,
paucity, small number, small quantity,
rarity,
infrequency, handful,
maniple,
minority,
exiguity, reduction,
weeding,
elimination, sarculation|,
decimation,
eradication Adj. few,
scant, scanty, thin, rare, scattered, thinly scattered,
spotty, few and far between,
exiguous, infrequent, rari nantes, hardly any, scarcely any, to be counted on one's fingers, reduced, unrepeated
Adv. rarely, here and there
Youth Roget’s Thesaurus §127 N. youth,
juvenility,
juvenescence,
juniority, infancy,
babyhood,
childhood,
boyhood,
girlhood,
youthhood,
incunabula,
minority, nonage,
teens, tender age,
bloom,
cradle,
nursery, leading strings,
pupilage,
puberty,
pucelage, prime of life, flower of life, springtide of life, seedtime of life, golden season of life, heyday of youth, school days, rising generation
Adj. young, youthful,
juvenile, green,
callow,
budding,
sappy,
puisne,
beardless, under age, in one's teens, in statu pupillari, younger,
junior, hebetic,
unfledged Phr. "youth on the prow and pleasure at the helm", "youth . . . the glad season of life"
