Adjective: inferior
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more inferior |
| Superlative | most inferior |
Sample Sentences
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Anna had always felt inferior to her brother due to poor school grades.
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The pathological liar was morally inferior to his much nicer constituents.
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Whether they are equal or inferior to my other poems, an author is the most improper judge. [1700, [John] Dryden, “Preface”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:]
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an inferior officer
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Due to the internet issue, the system generates an inferior audio file.
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She detests visiting inferior places.
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an inferior figure or letter
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the inferior part of a meridian
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the inferior or interior planets
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an inferior conjunction of Mercury or Venus
Adjectives inflected like inferior
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin īnferior (“lower in situation or place”), comparative of īnferus (“below, underneath”). See: Latin Adjectives '
īnferior'.
Verbs referencing "inferior"
Finnish Adjectives
inferiorinen.