inferior court

1. 1.

   any court whose decisions can be appealed to a higher court

   Synonymslower court

   Broadercourt

Questions about inferior court

What does inferior court mean?

inferior court means "any court whose decisions can be appealed to a higher court".

What is another word for inferior court?

Close synonyms include lower court. 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.

Is inferior court a common word?

inferior court is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.