You might call something inferior if its quality isn't as good as another, comparable thing, like that kite that you can't get to fly no matter how fast you run back and forth while your friend's kite soars overhead.
Lower in place, rank, excellence, etc.; less important or valuable; subordinate; underneath; beneath.
Noun
a character or symbol set or printed or written beneath or slightly below and to the side of another character
Noun
one of lesser rank or station or quality
Adjective S.
inferior in rank or status; "the junior faculty"; "a lowly corporal"; "petty officialdom"; "a subordinate functionary"
Adjective S.
falling short of some prescribed norm; "substandard housing"
Adjective
of or characteristic of low rank or importance
Adjective
of low or inferior quality
Adjective
having an orbit between the sun and the Earth''s orbit; "Mercury and Venus are inferior planets"
Adjective
written or printed below and to one side of another character
Adjective S.
lower than a given reference point; "inferior alveolar artery"
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.
Inferior
A thousand inferior and particular propositions.
The body, or, as some love to call it, our inferior nature.
Whether they are equal or inferior to my other poems, an author is the most improper judge.2.
Inferior
A great person gets more by obliging his inferior than by disdaining him.
Lower in place, rank, excellence, etc.; less important or valuable; subordinate; underneath; beneath.
A person lower in station, rank, intellect, etc., than another.
Usage Examples
The superior man understands what is right the inferior man understands what will sell.
I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.
Can advertising foist an inferior product on the consumer? Bitter experience has taught me that it cannot. On those rare occasions when I have advertised products which consumer tests have found inferior to other products in the same field, the results have been disastrous.
The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.
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Other Usage ExamplesDo not look down upon any Muslim, for even the most inferior believer is great in the eyes of God.
Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.
Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority.
I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.
To terrify children with the image of hell... to consider women an inferior creation. Is that good for the world?
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