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| Shopping | The largest selection of INFERIOR products: USA, UK, Canada, Deutschland, France. |
| TV Shop | As seen on TV: beauty, diets, exercise, household, kitchen, personal, vitamins, and other popular TV-products. |
| ADJECTIVE | 1 | inferior | Of or characteristic of low rank or importance |
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| 2 | inferior | Of low or inferior quality | |
| 3 | inferior, junior-grade, lower-ranking, lowly, petty, secondary, subaltern, subordinate | Inferior in rank or status | |
| 4 | inferior, subscript | Written or printed below and to one side of another character | |
| 5 | inferior | Having an orbit between the sun and the Earth's orbit | |
| 6 | inferior | Lower than a given reference point | |
| 7 | inferior, deficient, substandard | Falling short of some prescribed norm | |
| NOUN | 1 | inferior | One of lesser rank or station or quality |
| 2 | inferior, subscript | A character or symbol set or printed or written beneath or slightly below and to the side of another character |
| Sounds | ihnfih'riyer |
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| Rhymes | anterior, barrier, brazier, and 45 more rhymes in iyer... |
| Meaning | Of or characteristic of low rank or importance. |
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| Contrary | superior |
| Similar | humble, low, lowly, modest, small; indifferent; low-level; middle-level; outclassed |
| See also | subordinate, low-level; low; low |
| Meaning | Of low or inferior quality. |
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| Contrary | superior |
| Similar | bad; base; bum, cheap, cheesy, chintzy, crummy, punk, sleazy, tinny; bush-league, bush; flimsy; cheapjack, shoddy, tawdry; coarse, common; coarsened; commercial; deplorable, execrable, miserable, woeful, wretched; less; low-grade; mediocre, second-rate; ropey, ropy; scrawny, scrubby, stunted; second-class; third-rate; utility, utility-grade |
| See also | worst |
| Attribute of | quality, caliber, calibre |
| Nouns | inferiority |
| Meaning | Inferior in rank or status. |
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| Synonyms | junior-grade, lower-ranking, lowly, petty, secondary, subaltern, subordinate |
| Similar to | junior |
| Nouns | inferiority |
| Meaning | Written or printed below and to one side of another character. |
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| Synonyms | subscript |
| Contrary | superscript, superior; adscript |
| Category | printing, printing process |
| Meaning | Having an orbit between the sun and the Earth's orbit. |
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| Examples | "Mercury and Venus are inferior planets" |
| Contrary | superior |
| Category | astronomy, uranology |
| Meaning | Lower than a given reference point. |
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| Examples | "inferior alveolar artery" |
| Similar to | bottom |
| Category | anatomy, general anatomy |
| Meaning | Falling short of some prescribed norm. |
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| Synonyms | deficient, substandard |
| Similar to | nonstandard |
| Nouns | inferiority |
| Meaning | One of lesser rank or station or quality. |
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| Contrary | superior, higher-up, superordinate |
| Broader | follower |
| Meaning | A character or symbol set or printed or written beneath or slightly below and to the side of another character. |
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| Synonyms | subscript |
| Contrary | superscript, superior |
| Broader | character, grapheme, graphic symbol |
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