Inferior(a.) Lower in place, rank, excellence, etc.; less important or valuable; subordinate; underneath; beneath.
Inferior(a.) Poor or mediocre; as, an inferior quality of goods.
Inferior(a.) Nearer the sun than the earth is; as, the inferior or interior planets; an inferior conjunction of Mercury or Venus.
Inferior(a.) Below the horizon; as, the inferior part of a meridian.
Inferior(a.) 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.
Inferior(a.) On the side of a flower which is next the bract; anterior.
Inferior(a.) Junior or subordinate in rank; as, an inferior officer.
Inferior(n.) A person lower in station, rank, intellect, etc., than another.
Inferiority() The state of being inferior; a lower state or condition; as, inferiority of rank, of talents, of age, of worth.
Inferiorly(adv.) In an inferior manner, or on the inferior part.
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