inferior

1. 1.

   one of lesser rank or station or quality

   Antonymssuperior

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2. 2.

   a character or symbol set or printed or written beneath or slightly below and to the side of another character

   Synonymssubscript

   Broadercharacter

Other forms of inferior

plural

inferiors·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about inferior

What does inferior mean?

inferior means "of or characteristic of low rank or importance". That is the primary sense; the word has 8 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in inferior?

inferior has 4 syllables: in-fer-i-or. The stress falls on "fer". In IPA it is /ˌɪnˈfɪɹiɚ/.

What is another word for inferior?

Close synonyms include subscript, deficient, substandard, subscript. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of inferior?

The recorded antonyms are superior, superior, superior, superior.

Is inferior a common word?

inferior is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.