inferior

inferior is a 8-letter English word with 16 senses as adjective and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Lower in place, rank, excellence, etc.; less important or valuable; subordinate; underneath; beneath. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

8 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 12 · 16 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Lower in place, rank, excellence, etc.; less important or valuable; subordinate; underneath; beneath.
2. adjective. Poor or mediocre; as, an inferior quality of goods.
3. adjective. Nearer the sun than the earth is; as, the inferior or interior planets; an inferior conjunction of Mercury or Venus.
4. adjective. Below the horizon; as, the inferior part of a meridian.
5. adjective. 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.
6. adjective. On the side of a flower which is next the bract; anterior.
7. adjective. Junior or subordinate in rank; as, an inferior officer.
8. noun. A person lower in station, rank, intellect, etc., than another.
9. noun. a character or symbol set or printed or written beneath or slightly below and to the side of another character

   Synonyms: subscript

10. noun. one of lesser rank or station or quality
11. adjective. falling short of some prescribed norm

    "substandard housing"

    Synonyms: deficient, substandard

12. adjective. of or characteristic of low rank or importance
13. adjective. of low or inferior quality
14. adjective. having an orbit between the sun and the Earth's orbit

    "Mercury and Venus are inferior planets"

15. adjective. written or printed below and to one side of another character

    Synonyms: subscript

16. adjective. lower than a given reference point

    "inferior alveolar artery"

Synonyms

subscript, deficient, substandard

Common word forms

inferiors, inferiorly, inferiority, inferiorize, inferiorness

Words from these letters

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