Definition of Inferior

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Inferior

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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Inferior Quotations

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.
Confucius

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt

I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.
Katharine Hepburn

But suppose God is black? What if we go to Heaven and we, all our lives, have treated the Negro as an inferior, and God is there, and we look up and He is not white? What then is our response?
Robert Kennedy

Can advertising foist an inferior product on the consumer? Bitter experience has taught me that it cannot. On those rare occasions when I have advertised products which consumer tests have found inferior to other products in the same field, the results have been disastrous.
David Ogilvy

The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.
H. L. Mencken

No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them.
Elie Wiesel

I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.
Edmund Burke

I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.
William Butler Yeats

Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Inferior Translations

inferior in Dutch is minderwaardig
inferior in German is untelegen, schlechter (als), untere
inferior in Italian is di valore scadente
inferior in Latin is improbus
inferior in Spanish is inferior

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