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- (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