English-Dutch translations for inferior

• inferieur
  Het resultaat zou zonder meer inferieur zijn aan het huidige. The result would certainly be greatly inferior.
  De rol van vrouwen werd als inferieur en ondergeschikt beschouwd. Women were seen to have an inferior, subordinate role.
  De onze is daarom echter niet inferieur. That does not mean that ours are inferior.
• onderhorig
• ondermaats
• ondeugdelijk

Definition of inferior

• of lower quality
• of lower rank
• located below
• 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
• Nearer to the Sun than the Earth is
• Below the horizon
• a person of lower stature to another

Examples

• Anna had always felt inferior to her brother due to poor school grades.
• an inferior officer
• an inferior figure or letter
• the inferior or interior planets; an inferior conjunction of Mercury or Venus
• the inferior part of a meridian
• As you are my inferior, I can tell you to do anything I want

Related words

• inferiority
• inferiorly
• posteroinferior
• anteroinferior
• inferior court
• inferior conjunction
• inferior planet
• inferior nasal concha
• inferior vena cava