INFERIOR Synonyms

• falling short of some prescribed norm

• having a defect

• characterized by errors; not agreeing with a model or not following established rules

• lacking the requisite qualities or resources to meet a task

• of insufficient quantity to meet a need

• of less size or importance

• smaller in size or amount or value

• the bottom one of two

• the lower of two berths

• look angry or sullen, wrinkle one's forehead, as if to signal disapproval

• move something or somebody to a lower position

• set lower

• make lower or quieter

• cause to drop or sink

• inferior in rank or status

• low or inferior in station or quality

• inferior in rank or status

• used of unskilled work (especially domestic work)

• of low birth or station (`base' is archaic in this sense)

• moderate to inferior in quality

• lacking exceptional quality or ability

• poor to middling in quality

• of lesser importance or stature or rank

• lesser in scope or effect

• inferior in number or size or amount

• (of a scale or mode) having half steps between the second and third degrees, and (usually) the fifth and sixth degrees, and the seventh and eighth degrees

• not of legal age

• of lesser seriousness or danger

• of your secondary field of academic concentration or specialization

• a young person of either sex

• of the younger of two boys with the same family name

• warranting only temporal punishment

• relatively moderate, limited, or small

• have as one's secondary field of study

• moderate to inferior in quality

• being of second rank or importance or value; not direct or immediate

• the defensive football players who line up behind the linemen

• coil such that current is induced in it by passing a current through the primary coil

• inferior in rank or status

• depending on or incidental to what is original or primary

• not of major importance

• belonging to a lower class or rank

• lower in rank or importance

• subject or submissive to authority or the control of another

• (of a clause) unable to stand alone syntactically as a complete sentence

• an assistant subject to the authority or control of another

• a word that is more specific than a given word

• rank or order as less important or consider of less value

• make subordinate, dependent, or subservient

• compliant and obedient to authority

• serving or acting as a means or aid

• abjectly submissive; characteristic of a slave or servant

• not successful; having failed or having an unfavorable outcome

• failing to accomplish an intended result

• having little money or few possessions

• characterized by or indicating poverty

• lacking in quality or substances

• people without possessions or wealth (considered as a group)

• deserving or inciting pity

• of insufficient quantity to meet a need

• wanting in physical strength

• overly diluted; thin and insipid

• (used of vowels or syllables) pronounced with little or no stress

• wanting in moral strength, courage, or will; having the attributes of man as opposed to e.g. divine beings

• tending downward in price

• deficient or lacking in some skill

• lacking bodily or muscular strength or vitality

• (used of verbs) having standard (or regular) inflection

• not having authority, political strength, or governing power

• deficient in magnitude; barely perceptible; lacking clarity or brightness or loudness etc

• likely to fail under stress or pressure

• deficient in intelligence or mental power

• written or printed below and to one side of another character

• a character or symbol set or printed or written beneath or slightly below and to the side of another character