inferior🔊

Lower in rank, status, or quality.

Of low rank, standard or quality.

(law) {{q|of a court or tribunal}} Susceptible to having its decisions overturned by a higher court.

(economics) {{ng|Denoting goods or services which are in greater demand during a recession than in a boom, for example second-hand clothes.}}

Located below:

(anatomy) (anatomy) Situated further below (another part of the body), a direction that in humans corresponds to caudad.

(zoology) Situated in a relatively low posterior or ventral position in a quadrupedal body.

(botany) Situated below some other organ {{q|said of a calyx when free from the ovary, and therefore below it, or of an ovary with an adherent and therefore inferior calyx}}.

(botany) On the side of a flower which is next to the bract.

(typography) Printed in subscript.

(astronomy) Below the horizon.

(astronomy) Nearer to the Sun than the Earth is.

A person of lower rank, stature, or ability to another.

(printing) An inferior letter, figure, or symbol.