inferior

1. a. Lower in place, rank, excellence, etc.; less important or valuable; subordinate; underneath; beneath. Source: opted

2. a. Poor or mediocre; as, an inferior quality of goods. Source: opted

3. a. Nearer the sun than the earth is; as, the inferior or interior planets; an inferior conjunction of Mercury or Venus. Source: opted

4. a. Below the horizon; as, the inferior part of a meridian. Source: opted

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. Source: opted

6. a. On the side of a flower which is next the bract; anterior. Source: opted

7. a. Junior or subordinate in rank; as, an inferior officer. Source: opted

8. n. A person lower in station, rank, intellect, etc., than another. Source: opted

9. adj. of or characteristic of low rank or importance Source: wordnet

10. adj. of low or inferior quality Source: wordnet

11. adj. written or printed below and to one side of another character Source: wordnet

12. adj. having an orbit between the sun and the Earth's orbit Source: wordnet

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