inferior

inferior has 16 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 8.

Definitions

• a.. Lower in place, rank, excellence, etc.; less important or valuable; subordinate; underneath; beneath.
• a.. Poor or mediocre; as, an inferior quality of goods.
• a.. Nearer the sun than the earth is; as, the inferior or interior planets; an inferior conjunction of Mercury or Venus.
• a.. Below the horizon; as, the inferior part of a meridian.
• 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.
• a.. On the side of a flower which is next the bract; anterior.
• a.. Junior or subordinate in rank; as, an inferior officer.
• n.. A person lower in station, rank, intellect, etc., than another.
• n.. a character or symbol set or printed or written beneath or slightly below and to the side of another character
• n.. one of lesser rank or station or quality
• a.. falling short of some prescribed norm; "substandard housing"
• a.. of or characteristic of low rank or importance