inferior | | |
n. (person) | 1. inferior | one of lesser rank or station or quality. |
| ~ follower | a person who accepts the leadership of another. |
n. (communication) | 2. inferior, subscript | a character or symbol set or printed or written beneath or slightly below and to the side of another character. |
| ~ grapheme, graphic symbol, character | a written symbol that is used to represent speech.; "the Greek alphabet has 24 characters" |
adj. | 3. inferior | of or characteristic of low rank or importance. |
| ~ subordinate, low-level | lower in rank or importance. |
| ~ low | literal meanings; being at or having a relatively small elevation or upward extension.; "low ceilings"; "low clouds"; "low hills"; "the sun is low"; "low furniture"; "a low bow" |
| ~ low | less than normal in degree or intensity or amount.; "low prices"; "the reservoir is low" |
| ~ humble, lowly, modest, small, low | low or inferior in station or quality.; "a humble cottage"; "a lowly parish priest"; "a modest man of the people"; "small beginnings" |
| ~ indifferent | fairly poor to not very good.; "has an indifferent singing voice"; "has indifferent qualifications for the job" |
| ~ low-level | at a low level in rank or importance.; "a low-level job"; "low-level discussions" |
| ~ middle-level | intermediate in rank or position.; "middle-level management" |
| ~ outclassed | decisively surpassed by something else so as to appear to be of a lower class. |
adj. | 4. inferior | of low or inferior quality. |
| ~ worst | (superlative of `bad') most wanting in quality or value or condition.; "the worst player on the team"; "the worst weather of the year" |
| ~ bad | below average in quality or performance.; "a bad chess player"; "a bad recital" |
| ~ base | (used of metals) consisting of or alloyed with inferior metal.; "base coins of aluminum"; "a base metal" |
| ~ bum, cheesy, chintzy, crummy, punk, sleazy, tinny, cheap | of very poor quality; flimsy. |
| ~ bush, bush-league | not of the highest quality or sophistication. |
| ~ cheapjack, shoddy, tawdry | cheap and shoddy.; "cheapjack moviemaking...that feeds on the low taste of the mob" |
| ~ coarse, common | of low or inferior quality or value.; "of what coarse metal ye are molded"; "produced...the common cloths used by the poorer population" |
| ~ coarsened | made coarse or crude by lack of skill. |
| ~ commercial-grade, commercial | of the kind or quality used in commerce; average or inferior.; "commercial grade of beef"; "commercial oxalic acid" |
| ~ execrable, wretched, deplorable, woeful, miserable | of very poor quality or condition.; "deplorable housing conditions in the inner city"; "woeful treatment of the accused"; "woeful errors of judgment" |
| ~ less | (usually preceded by `no') lower in quality.; "no less than perfect" |
| ~ low-grade | of inferior quality. |
| ~ mediocre, second-rate | moderate to inferior in quality.; "they improved the quality from mediocre to above average" |
| ~ ropey, ropy | (British informal) very poor in quality.; "ropey food"; "a ropey performance" |
| ~ stunted, scrawny, scrubby | inferior in size or quality.; "scrawny cattle"; "scrubby cut-over pine"; "old stunted thorn trees" |
| ~ second-class | of inferior status or quality.; "a second-class citizen"; "second-class accommodations" |
| ~ third-rate | of lesser quality than second-rate. |
| ~ utility, utility-grade | used of beef; usable but inferior. |
adj. | 5. inferior, subscript | written or printed below and to one side of another character. |
| ~ printing process, printing | reproduction by applying ink to paper as for publication. |
adj. | 6. inferior | having an orbit between the sun and the Earth's orbit.; "Mercury and Venus are inferior planets" |
| ~ astronomy, uranology | the branch of physics that studies celestial bodies and the universe as a whole. |
adj. | 7. inferior | lower than a given reference point.; "inferior alveolar artery" |
| ~ anatomy, general anatomy | the branch of morphology that deals with the structure of animals. |
| ~ bottom | situated at the bottom or lowest position.; "the bottom drawer" |
adj. | 8. deficient, inferior, substandard | falling short of some prescribed norm.; "substandard housing" |
| ~ nonstandard | varying from or not adhering to a standard.; "nonstandard windows"; "envelopes of nonstandard sizes"; "nonstandard lengths of board" |
psidium guajava | | |
n. (plant) | 1. guava, guava bush, psidium guajava, true guava | small tropical American shrubby tree; widely cultivated in warm regions for its sweet globular yellow fruit. |
| ~ guava | tropical fruit having yellow skin and pink pulp; eaten fresh or used for e.g. jellies. |
| ~ genus psidium, psidium | guavas. |
| ~ fruit tree | tree bearing edible fruit. |
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