inferior

  • (noun): A person of lower stature to another
  • (adjective): Of lower quality
  • (adjective): Of lower rank
  • (adjective): Located below
  • (adjective): 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.
  • (adjective): On the side of a flower which is next to the bract; anterior.
  • (adjective): Nearer to the Sun than the Earth is.
  • (adjective): Below the horizon.
  • As you are my inferior, I can tell you to do anything I want.
  • Anna had always felt inferior to her brother due to poor school grades.
  • an inferior officer
  • the inferior or interior planets; an inferior conjunction of Mercury or Venus
  • the inferior part of a meridian