English-French translations for inferior

• inférieur
  Considérons-nous que d'autres sont inférieurs? Do we consider others inferior?
  Les femmes étaient perçues comme ayant un rôle inférieur, subordonné. Women were seen to have an inferior, subordinate role.
• mauvais
  Cela implique également que le niveau de sécurité dans tous les aéroports hors UE est inférieur au niveau du plus mauvais des aéroports de l'UE. It equally implies that security at all extra-EU airports are inferior to the worst EU airport.

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