Inferior

What do we mean by inferior?

Low or lower in order, degree, or rank. adjective

Low or lower in quality, value, or estimation. adjective

Second-rate; poor. adjective

Situated under or beneath. adjective

Located below the perianth and other floral parts. Used of an ovary. adjective

Located beneath or directed downward. adjective

Set below the normal line of type; subscript. adjective

Orbiting between Earth and the sun. adjective

Lying below the horizon. adjective

A person lower in rank, status, or accomplishment than another. noun

An inferior character, such as the number 2 in CO2. noun

In anatomy, lying on the ventral side of the body; farther from the dorsal line, or back, than some other organ or part of an organ.

Lower in space; situated below or in a lower position; subjacent: as, the inferior maxillary bone; the inferior limb of the moon.

Lower in grade or in any scale of reckoning; less important or valuable; of smaller consideration; subordinate: as, goods of inferior quality; a man of inferior rank.

In botany, growing below some other organ. An inferior calyx is one that is inserted below the ovary, or free; an inferior ovary is one with adnate or superior calyx. Compare superior.

In astronomy: Situated or occurring between the earth and the sun: as, the inferior planets; an inferior conjunction of Mercury and Venus.

Lying below the horizon: as, the inferior part of a meridian.

5 In music, lower in pitch.

A person of lower stature to another

Words that are spelled similarly to inferior:
inferior, interior, anterior, inferno, inheritor, inferrer, inferiae, infector, invertor, infero, infernos, inferiors, inferiore, in error, infero-, inversor, ferior.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word inferior:
epigastric, lobule, oolite, gluteal, vena, cava, gyrus, rectus, iliac, ramus, cerebellar, sulcus, parietal, plexus, alveolar, artery, peduncle, ganglion, ovary, frontal, arteries, sinus, temporal, cortex, medial, diaphragm, ligament, nerve, thyroid, venous, lobe, posterior, pleas, superior, oblique, vein, anterior, nasal, veins, nerves, lateral, fascia, muscles, nucleus, muscle, whites, transverse, cavity, orbital, neurons, venus, dorsal, courts, quality, bone, liver, branches, angle, conjunction, jurisdiction, compared, aspect, margin, difference.

Words that rhyme with inferior:
superior, anterior, ulterior, interior, exterior, wearier, eerier, cheerier, mother superior, lake superior, pars anterior, department of the interior, secretary of the interior, act superior, centerior, weary her.

Adjectives that are often used to describe inferior:
much, social, little, ovary, intellectual, constitutional, female, superior, psychopathic, obliquus, mental, whole, anterior, moral, posterior, involuntary, wise, average, racial, acute, former, latter, scarce, least, germ, syncarpous, bright, left, minor, oblique, feudal, epiglottideus, lateral, rectus, medial, disobedient, adjacent, refractory, inherently, audacious, larynx, worldly, pylorus, hopeless, softwood, untried, frontalis, mesenteric, humble, savage, micropyle, bilateral.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective inferior:
cava, quality, artery, courts, position, status, border, surface, colliculus, race, nerve, part, officers, rank, margin, animals, portion, races, aspect, muscle, angle, court, vein, rectus, class, clergy, force, kind, beings, order, turbinate, oblique, arteries, infarction, goods, ones, meatus, vessels, degree, wall, ganglion, peduncle, olive, grade, classes, veins, creatures, edge, branch, sinus, nucleus, species, sort, ligament, cortex, conjunction, product, extremity, being, performance, fissure, spine, pole, lobe, numbers, horn, orders, rim, products, maxilla, gyrus, muscles, officer, grades, bone, tribunals, ranks, colliculi, mesenteric, division, lobule, concha, canal.

Consonant match to inferior:
inferiae.

Words that sound like inferior:
inferior, inferiors, interior, informer, infero, interieur, unfairer, enforcer, in fear, inferiorly, in theory, inferrer, infinger, anterior, infared, in a hurry, in error, infare, in favor, in favour, inform, interiors, informs, infra, unfree, unfreeze, in for, informers, in order, informa, unfearing, infierno, inari, inner ear, informe, in force, unfeared, in for it, in form, emiri, enfinger, gun for hire, inori, in the air, in the raw, unfair, unfairly, infector, unfetter, in a row, infecter, infester, unfeather, enfetter, injury, injuries, injurer, interfere, informed, infer, enforce, infirmary, infrared, interfering, inferred, interfered, infirm, interger, interferes, enforcers, inferring, insurer, injurie, eerier, inverter, infers, indri, enlarger, conformer, infarct, imperia, inserter, unform, infielder, infini, infin, increaser, infy, invigor, intriguer, inri, infirmaries, invertor, interferer, entrar, enwreathe, unfired, unforesee, etheria, unflurried.