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inferior

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Adjective

  1. Lower in rank, status, or quality.
  2. Lower in rank, status, or quality: Of low rank, standard or quality.
  3. Lower in rank, status, or quality: (of a court or tribunal) Susceptible to having its decisions overturned by a higher court.
  4. Lower in rank, status, or quality: Denoting goods or services which are in greater demand during a recession than in a boom, for example second-hand clothes.
  5. Located below: Situated further below (another part of the body), a direction that in humans corresponds to caudad.
  6. Located below: Situated in a relatively low posterior or ventral position in a quadrupedal body.
  7. Located below: 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).
  8. Located below: On the side of a flower which is next to the bract.
  9. Located below: Printed in subscript.
  10. Located below: Below the horizon.
  11. Nearer to the Sun than the Earth is.

Noun

  1. A person of lower rank, stature, or ability to another.
  2. An inferior letter, figure, or symbol.

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