Overview of noun inferior

The noun inferior has 2 senses

• inferior -- (one of lesser rank or station or quality)


• subscript, inferior -- (a character or symbol set or printed or written beneath or slightly below and to the side of another character)

Overview of adj inferior

The adj inferior has 6 senses

• inferior -- (of or characteristic of low rank or importance)


• inferior -- (of low or inferior quality)


• subscript, inferior -- (written or printed below and to one side of another character)


• inferior -- (having an orbit between the sun and the Earth's orbit; "Mercury and Venus are inferior planets")


• inferior -- (lower than a given reference point; "inferior alveolar artery")


• deficient, inferior, substandard -- (falling short of some prescribed norm; "substandard housing")