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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Dualin :: Dualin (n.) An explosive substance consisting essentially of sawdust or wood pulp, saturated with nitroglycerin and other similar nitro compounds. It is inferior to dynamite, and is more liable to explosion..
Second :: Second (n.) One who, or that which, follows, or comes after; one next and inferior in place, time, rank, importance, excellence, or power..
Prince :: Prince (a.) A title belonging to persons of high rank, differing in different countries. In England it belongs to dukes, marquises, and earls, but is given to members of the royal family only. In Italy a prince is inferior to a duke as a member of a particular order of nobility; in Spain he is always one of the royal family..
Sirrah :: Sirrah (n.) A term of address implying inferiority and used in anger, contempt, reproach, or disrespectful familiarity, addressed to a man or boy, but sometimes to a woman. In sililoquies often preceded by ah. Not used in the plural..
Puisne :: Puisne (a.) Younger or inferior in rank; junior; associate; as, a chief justice and three puisne justices of the Court of Common Pleas; the puisne barons of the Court of Exchequer..
Cheaply :: Cheaply (adv.) At a small price; at a low value; in a common or inferior manner.
Dietine :: Dietine (n.) A subordinate or local assembly; a diet of inferior rank.
Hypoarion :: Hypoarion (n.) An oval lobe beneath each of the optic lobes in many fishes; one of the inferior lobes.
Subsidiary :: Subsidiary (a.) Furnishing aid; assisting; auxiliary; helping; tributary; especially, aiding in an inferior position or capacity; as, a subsidiary stream..
Inferior :: Inferior (a.) On the side of a flower which is next the bract; anterior.
Baddish :: Baddish (a.) Somewhat bad; inferior.
Underwork :: Underwork (n.) Inferior or subordinate work; petty business.
Veneer :: Veneer (v. t.) A thin leaf or layer of a more valuable or beautiful material for overlaying an inferior one, especially such a thin leaf of wood to be glued to a cheaper wood; hence, external show; gloss; false pretense..
Underproportioned :: Underproportioned (a.) Of inadequate or inferior proportions; small; poor.
Postcava :: Postcava (n.) The inferior vena cava.
Razee :: Razee (v. t.) To cut down to a less number of decks, and thus to an inferior rate or class, as a ship; hence, to prune or abridge by cutting off or retrenching parts; as, to razee a book, or an article..
Famulist :: Famulist (n.) A collegian of inferior rank or position, corresponding to the sizar at Cambridge..
Reduce :: Reduce (n.) To bring to any inferior state, with respect to rank, size, quantity, quality, value, etc.; to diminish; to lower; to degrade; to impair; as, to reduce a sergeant to the ranks; to reduce a drawing; to reduce expenses; to reduce the intensity of heat..
Publican :: Publican (n.) A farmer of the taxes and public revenues; hence, a collector of toll or tribute. The inferior officers of this class were often oppressive in their exactions, and were regarded with great detestation..
Deuterocanonical :: Deuterocanonical (a.) Pertaining to a second canon, or ecclesiastical writing of inferior authority; -- said of the Apocrypha, certain Epistles, etc..
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