Thesaurus: inferior

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1. a. Lower in place, rank, excellence, etc.; less important or valuable; subordinate; underneath; beneath.
2. a. Poor or mediocre; as, an inferior quality of goods.
3. a. Nearer the sun than the earth is; as, the inferior or interior planets; an inferior conjunction of Mercury or Venus.
4. a. Below the horizon; as, the inferior part of a meridian.
5. a. 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.
6. a. On the side of a flower which is next the bract; anterior.
7. a. Junior or subordinate in rank; as, an inferior officer.
8. n. A person lower in station, rank, intellect, etc., than another.
9. adj. of or characteristic of low rank or importance
10. adj. of low or inferior quality
11. adj. written or printed below and to one side of another character
12. adj. having an orbit between the sun and the Earth's orbit