Usually means: Lower in status or quality.
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We found 43 dictionaries that define the word inferior:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. inferior: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. inferior: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. inferior: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. inferior: Collins English Dictionary
  5. inferior: Vocabulary.com
  6. Inferior, inferior: Wordnik
  7. inferior: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. inferior: Wiktionary
  9. inferior: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. inferior: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. inferior: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. inferior: Dictionary.com
  13. inferior (adj.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. inferior: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Inferior (anatomy), Inferior (book), Inferior (film), Inferior, The Inferior: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Inferior: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. inferior: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. inferior: Rhymezone
  19. inferior, inferior: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. inferior: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. inferior: Free Dictionary
  22. inferior: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. inferior: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. inferior: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. inferior: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  2. inferior: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. inferior: Encyclopedia

Medicine (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Inferior: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Neurotrauma Glossary (No longer online)
  5. Glossary of Skeletal Anatomy (No longer online)
  6. inferior: Medical dictionary
  7. Inferior: Drug Medical Dictionary

Science (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. inferior: Dictionary of Botanical Epithets
  2. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  3. Bryological (No longer online)
  4. Inferior: The Orchid Lady's Illustrated Orchid Encyclopedia
  5. Fishkeeping glossary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. inferior: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See inferiority as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Lower in rank, status, or quality.
adjective:  Of low rank, standard or quality.
adjective:  (law) (of a court or tribunal) Susceptible to having its decisions overturned by a higher court.
adjective:  (economics) Denoting goods or services which are in greater demand during a recession than in a boom, for example second-hand clothes.
adjective:  Located below:
adjective:  (anatomy) Situated further below (another part of the body), a direction that in humans corresponds to caudad.
adjective:  (zoology) Situated in a relatively low posterior or ventral position in a quadrupedal body.
adjective:  (botany) 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).
adjective:  (botany) On the side of a flower which is next to the bract.
adjective:  (typography) Printed in subscript.
adjective:  (astronomy) Below the horizon.
adjective:  (astronomy) Nearer to the Sun than the Earth is.
noun:  A person of lower rank, stature, or ability to another.
noun:  (printing) An inferior letter, figure, or symbol.

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