Definition of inferior

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Inferior (a.) Lower in place, rank, excellence, etc.; less important or valuable; subordinate; underneath; beneath..

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Circler :: Circler (n.) A mean or inferior poet, perhaps from his habit of wandering around as a stroller; an itinerant poet. Also, a name given to the cyclic poets. See under Cyclic, a..
Coistril :: Coistril (n.) An inferior groom or lad employed by an esquire to carry the knight's arms and other necessaries.
Underling :: Underling (n.) An inferior person or agent; a subordinate; hence, a mean, sorry fellow..
Inferior :: Inferior (a.) Nearer the sun than the earth is; as, the inferior or interior planets; an inferior conjunction of Mercury or Venus..
Underworld :: Underworld (n.) The lower of inferior world; the world which is under the heavens; the earth.
Vanilloes :: Vanilloes (n. pl.) An inferior kind of vanilla, the pods of Vanilla Pompona..
Below :: Below (prep.) Inferior to in rank, excellence, dignity, value, amount, price, etc.; lower in quality..
Condescension :: Condescension (n.) The act of condescending; voluntary descent from one's rank or dignity in intercourse with an inferior; courtesy toward inferiors.
Base-court :: Base-court (n.) The secondary, inferior, or rear courtyard of a large house; the outer court of a castle..
Velvet :: Velvet (n.) A silk fabric, having a short, close nap of erect threads. Inferior qualities are made with a silk pile on a cotton or linen back..
Ascend :: Ascend (v. i.) To rise, in a figurative sense; to proceed from an inferior to a superior degree, from mean to noble objects, from particulars to generals, from modern to ancient times, from one note to another more acute, etc.; as, our inquiries ascend to the remotest antiquity; to ascend to our first progenitor..
Subovated :: Subovate (a.) Nearly in the form of an egg, or of the section of an egg, but having the inferior extremity broadest; nearly ovate..
Petty :: Petty (superl.) Little; trifling; inconsiderable; also, inferior; subordinate; as, a petty fault; a petty prince..
Handicap :: Handicap (n.) An allowance of a certain amount of time or distance in starting, granted in a race to the competitor possessing inferior advantages; or an additional weight or other hindrance imposed upon the one possessing superior advantages, in order to equalize, as much as possible, the chances of success; as, the handicap was five seconds, or ten pounds, and the like..
Overking :: Overking (n.) A king who has sovereignty over inferior kings or ruling princes.
Base :: Base (a.) Of little comparative value, as metal inferior to gold and silver, the precious metals..
Second-class :: Second-class (a.) Of the rank or degree below the best highest; inferior; second-rate; as, a second-class house; a second-class passage..
Plant-cane :: Plant-cane (n.) A stalk or shoot of sugar cane of the first growth from the cutting. The growth of the second and following years is of inferior quality, and is called rattoon..
Opal :: Opal (n.) A mineral consisting, like quartz, of silica, but inferior to quartz in hardness and specific gravity..
Mull :: Mull (n.) An inferior kind of madder prepared from the smaller roots or the peelings and refuse of the larger.
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