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Definition of inferior in English: inferioradjective ɪnˈfɪərɪəˌɪnˈfɪriər 1Lower in rank, status, or quality. （等级）下级的，（地位）下等的，（质量）次的 schooling in inner-city areas was inferior to that in the rest of the country 市中心贫民区的学校教育次于全国其他地方。 Example sentencesExamples - During wartime, the supply of such non-essential goods as books was curtailed; and Indian bookstores are grossly inferior to London ones in any case.
- Conscripts are usually inferior to volunteers in training, combat qualities, and mental preparation for combat.
- Women's status in traditional Chukchi society was clearly inferior to that of men.
- Its military equipment consists of aging Soviet and Chinese stocks that qualitatively are vastly inferior to both the U.S. and South Korean militaries.
- Obviously, since it is shielded from the burden of having to please customers or compete in a real marketplace, its quality will be inferior to paid research.
- Practitioners made it look up-to-date, however, by derisively highlighting the racism, colonialism, sexism and other failings that made past ages so inferior to their own.
- The thought is that such competition hurts the losers' self-esteem, by proving that they're inferior to some other kid in some specific thing.
- Maybe New York City refrigerators are inferior to the other larger, more glamorous cooling systems elsewhere that keep milk fresher longer?
- It indicates an institutional sentiment towards women in uniform that they don't belong; that somehow, they're inferior to men in uniform.
- I think a world in which governments endorse or aid religion is seriously inferior to one in which government has nothing whatsoever to say about religion.
- Even the angels are inferior to man in status and are asked by God to pay obeisance to him.
- It seems to be a given in this society that they are automatically inferior to their male counterparts, yet nearly all of the modern nations of the world have long since debunked and moved beyond that myth.
- The only conclusion that I can come up with, is that the quality of the glass in these lenses is now inferior to the glass that I have in mine.
- Of course, China's subs are inferior to our own.
- Since Eritrean society is still highly influenced by customary principles, the status of women in many communities is inferior to that of men.
- Buck is hinting that the 45 (short, noisy, desperate for your attention) is inferior to its sophisticated older brother, the long playing album.
- ‘We are not inferior to them in any field,’ was their reaction.
- Simmons and Torre are clearly inferior to the other ten catchers and would rank 11 th and 12 th, respectively, in my book.
- Traditionally, the combat service support forces have occupied a status seen as somewhat inferior to those of the other two categories.
- The situation reminds me of the commonly held view that anything ‘local’ is inferior to that from ‘foreign.’
Synonyms lower in status, lesser, second-class, second-fiddle, minor, subservient, lowly, humble, menial, not very important, not so important, below someone, beneath someone, under someone's heel lower-ranking, lower in rank, subordinate, junior, secondary, subsidiary, ancillary - 1.1 Of low standard or quality.
（水准，质量）劣等的，差的，次的 次品。 Example sentencesExamples - Only a handful of paintings on show in London were of an inferior standard or problematic in some other way.
- First, because of the public good (positive externality) nature of education, society at large loses from inferior standards of education.
- Liebowitz and Margolis are skeptical that any convincing claim of path dependent selection of an objectively inferior standard has been established.
- Meals offered at the restaurant were of inferior quality and the selection extremely poor.
- Four years later, at the age of 21, she had turned her back on the company and on the music industry, claiming that she was being offered inferior material and insufficient career development.
- Although Monaghan did not really test the home team the manager placed more focus on how his team performed and less about the inferior standard of the visitors.
- They are copies, made by a bootlegger to low standards using inferior materials.
- It is by the judicious use of such articles of diet that a constitution may be gradually built up to resist every tendency towards flagging under the weight of inferior food substances.
- Zhang attributed the decline in safety qualifications to price wars that encouraged some firms to reduce standards and begin using inferior materials.
- Courtney began outsourcing manufacturing to India and Pakistan, but was disappointed with the inferior quality and poor fit.
- If something's been shown to be better, do you stick with the old, inferior standard?
- For example, an entrepreneur could patent a superior standard and market it in ways that overcome the lock-in of the inferior standard.
- His efforts also saved countless lives by rooting out contractors using inferior materials and producing shoddy equipment.
- More seriously, the lead content in the paint of some inferior toys is much higher than the national standard.
- This meant that banks, for example, sold only their own products, even though some were inferior and offered poor value.
- The inevitable result will be a diminished standard of living and inferior quality of life for the average American.
- Where nets are used, they are mostly of poor quality, providing an inferior barrier against malaria-carrying mosquitoes.
- I came to the conclusion that all the food available in the village was of inferior quality and meant for consumption by the poor with low purchasing power.
- ‘The poor think when it's priced cheaply it's of inferior quality and the people who are better off do not want to buy what is meant for the poor,’ Manohar said.
- Studies and anecdotal evidence suggest that the uninsured and the poor receive inferior care.
Synonyms second-rate, substandard, low-quality, low-grade, downmarket, indifferent, mediocre, unsatisfactory, shoddy, shabby, deficient, flawed, imperfect, unsound poor, bad, awful, dreadful, disagreeable, deplorable, wretched, leaving much to be desired informal grotty, crummy, dire, rotten, lousy, poxy, third-rate, God-awful, not up to much, not up to snuff, the pits British informal duff, rubbish, ropy, pants, a load of pants - 1.2Law (of a court or tribunal) susceptible to having its decisions overturned by a higher court.
〔律〕（法庭，特别法庭）下级的 Example sentencesExamples - A Magistrates' Court is, however, an inferior court.
- Maybe it does not apply because it is an inferior tribunal, but just assume for the moment it does.
- One task that it assumed became the supervisory jurisdiction of inferior courts and tribunals.
- Judicial review is available as a remedy for mistakes of law made by inferior courts and tribunals only.
- This applies to statements made by judges, counsel, witnesses or the parties, in both superior and inferior courts.
- 1.3Economics Denoting goods or services which are in greater demand during a recession than in a boom, for example second-hand clothes.
〔经济〕（商品，服务）需求量在衰退期中较之繁荣期更大的，低档的 Example sentencesExamples - These are referred to as inferior goods and examples in most western countries include rural bus services and household coal.
- True inferior goods are not common, but particular goods and services may benefit from some customers who buy more as incomes fall.
- Income effects on attendance were found to be negative, which supports the idea found in previous research of hockey as an inferior good.
- A price fall leads to a rise in real income which could result in falling demand if the good is strongly inferior.
2Anatomy
Low or lower in position. 〔主剖〕（位置）下方的，下位的，靠下的 ulcers located in the inferior and posterior wall of the duodenum 位于十二指肠下部和后部肠壁的溃疡。 Example sentencesExamples - He underwent an excision of a portion of the anterior temporal lobe and inferior temporal gyrus.
- The lateral part of the anterior commissure traverses the inferior part of the corpus striatum.
- The inferior thyroid, and intercostal bronchial, gastric, and phrenic veins provide venous drainage.
- The first lumbar may provide the inferior phrenic or middle suprarenal.
- The most pronounced changes involve the left posterior inferior cerebellar artery.
- 2.1Botany (of the ovary of a flower) situated below the sepals and enclosed in the receptacle.
〔植〕（子房）下位的，在下的 Example sentencesExamples - The flowers, when looked at through a magnifier, reveal five yellowish-green petals surrounding an inferior ovary.
- Four sepals are fused to form a long slender floral tube with an inferior ovary.
- The members of subgen. Bomarea s.str. have an inferior ovary and a dehiscent capsule.
- Each disc flower is surrounded by a sharp-pointed, chaffy bract and consists of a basal inferior ovary, two pappus scales, and a tubular corolla.
3Printing
(of a letter, figure, or symbol) written or printed below the line. （字母，数字，符号）下标的 Example sentencesExamples - Reservation 2: Nunn points out that inferior lines have, for the most part, been left out of this book.
- The character may also have an attached superior or inferior figure.
- Differences between the values indicated by the same inferior letter are significant at the 5% level.
noun ɪnˈfɪərɪəˌɪnˈfɪriər 1A person lower than another in rank, status, or ability. （等级）下级的，（地位）下等的，（质量）次的 her social and intellectual inferiors 社会地位和知识水平不如她的人。 Example sentencesExamples - Nissenbaum argues that when the head of household offered presents largely to social inferiors who appeared at the door, it made sense to offer practical items from the home's own store.
- But Grandma Biscotti didn't trust Sicilians and looked down on them as social inferiors.
- Undoubtedly princes, peers and other great nobles of old stock resented the power thus vested in men whom they regarded as social inferiors.
- Like their social inferiors, however, the middling group was also highly vulnerable to new taxes, economic dislocations and other pressures.
- If you wanted to insult a social inferior, you displayed your contempt by bludgeoning him with a cane.
- A combination of religious and cultural change, reinforced by political pressure from governments, began to wean them away from their social inferiors.
- I was doing my duty, co-ordinating with my inferiors.
- This guy was trying so hard to seem charming to what he saw as a desperate social inferior, that he didn't even notice how stupid he sounded.
- Maintain social status by winning at least as much as your inferiors and climb the ranks by winning more than your superiors.
- Suddenly people deemed their social inferiors (Irish and British alike) were rising in the social ladder while those who would normally have been in the elite were rapidly declining.
- The point was to distinguish a given individual or family from others - whether equals or social inferiors.
- She was a cruel and vicious woman, and did not hesitate to inflict pain upon her inferiors, be they slaves, servants, or her own flesh and blood.
- The word once meant very literally the voluntary descent from one's rank or dignity in intercourse with an inferior.
- You will have to put up with the most difficult of people, live in drafty rectories, deal with ignorant superiors, and be scoffed at by your spiritual and intellectual inferiors.
- Other doctors felt him arrogant, aloof and overbearing towards those whom he considered his intellectual inferiors.
- Furthermore, how much one had to share with guests and followers seems to have been a function of the number of social inferiors within one's orbit.
- Those who use ‘male privilege’ treat partners like servants or inferiors, consistently make unilateral decisions, and insist on maintaining stereotypical gender roles.
- Given that there are no animals contesting their status as inferiors to mankind, where can a human advocate of animal emancipation possibly go from there?
- It is most evident when he refers to the middle class - especially those members of it who, through idealism or voyeurism, decided to slum it with their social inferiors.
- Her husband would respect her as a leader respects his devoted subordinates - friends but inferiors.
Synonyms subordinate, junior, underling, minion, menial informal bitch 2Printing
An inferior letter, figure, or symbol. 〔印刷〕下标字母；下标数字；下标符号 Example sentencesExamples - This mark indicates that the letter is superior to an inferior.
OriginLate Middle English (in sense 2 of the adjective): from Latin, comparative of inferus 'low'. RhymesAlgeria, anterior, bacteria, Bashkiria, cafeteria, criteria, cryptomeria, diphtheria, exterior, hysteria, Iberia, interior, Liberia, listeria, Nigeria, posterior, Siberia, superior, ulterior, wisteria Definition of inferior in US English: inferioradjectiveˌinˈfirēərˌɪnˈfɪriər 1Lower in rank, status, or quality. （等级）下级的，（地位）下等的，（质量）次的 schooling in inner-city areas was inferior to that in the rest of the country 市中心贫民区的学校教育次于全国其他地方。 Example sentencesExamples - Even the angels are inferior to man in status and are asked by God to pay obeisance to him.
- The thought is that such competition hurts the losers' self-esteem, by proving that they're inferior to some other kid in some specific thing.
- Practitioners made it look up-to-date, however, by derisively highlighting the racism, colonialism, sexism and other failings that made past ages so inferior to their own.
- Its military equipment consists of aging Soviet and Chinese stocks that qualitatively are vastly inferior to both the U.S. and South Korean militaries.
- Obviously, since it is shielded from the burden of having to please customers or compete in a real marketplace, its quality will be inferior to paid research.
- During wartime, the supply of such non-essential goods as books was curtailed; and Indian bookstores are grossly inferior to London ones in any case.
- It seems to be a given in this society that they are automatically inferior to their male counterparts, yet nearly all of the modern nations of the world have long since debunked and moved beyond that myth.
- It indicates an institutional sentiment towards women in uniform that they don't belong; that somehow, they're inferior to men in uniform.
- Simmons and Torre are clearly inferior to the other ten catchers and would rank 11 th and 12 th, respectively, in my book.
- Of course, China's subs are inferior to our own.
- The situation reminds me of the commonly held view that anything ‘local’ is inferior to that from ‘foreign.’
- Since Eritrean society is still highly influenced by customary principles, the status of women in many communities is inferior to that of men.
- I think a world in which governments endorse or aid religion is seriously inferior to one in which government has nothing whatsoever to say about religion.
- Maybe New York City refrigerators are inferior to the other larger, more glamorous cooling systems elsewhere that keep milk fresher longer?
- The only conclusion that I can come up with, is that the quality of the glass in these lenses is now inferior to the glass that I have in mine.
- Women's status in traditional Chukchi society was clearly inferior to that of men.
- Conscripts are usually inferior to volunteers in training, combat qualities, and mental preparation for combat.
- ‘We are not inferior to them in any field,’ was their reaction.
- Buck is hinting that the 45 (short, noisy, desperate for your attention) is inferior to its sophisticated older brother, the long playing album.
- Traditionally, the combat service support forces have occupied a status seen as somewhat inferior to those of the other two categories.
Synonyms lower in status, lesser, second-class, second-fiddle, minor, subservient, lowly, humble, menial, not very important, not so important, below someone, beneath someone, under someone's heel - 1.1 Of low standard or quality.
（水准，质量）劣等的，差的，次的 次品。 Example sentencesExamples - His efforts also saved countless lives by rooting out contractors using inferior materials and producing shoddy equipment.
- For example, an entrepreneur could patent a superior standard and market it in ways that overcome the lock-in of the inferior standard.
- The inevitable result will be a diminished standard of living and inferior quality of life for the average American.
- This meant that banks, for example, sold only their own products, even though some were inferior and offered poor value.
- Although Monaghan did not really test the home team the manager placed more focus on how his team performed and less about the inferior standard of the visitors.
- Studies and anecdotal evidence suggest that the uninsured and the poor receive inferior care.
- Where nets are used, they are mostly of poor quality, providing an inferior barrier against malaria-carrying mosquitoes.
- Four years later, at the age of 21, she had turned her back on the company and on the music industry, claiming that she was being offered inferior material and insufficient career development.
- It is by the judicious use of such articles of diet that a constitution may be gradually built up to resist every tendency towards flagging under the weight of inferior food substances.
- They are copies, made by a bootlegger to low standards using inferior materials.
- ‘The poor think when it's priced cheaply it's of inferior quality and the people who are better off do not want to buy what is meant for the poor,’ Manohar said.
- More seriously, the lead content in the paint of some inferior toys is much higher than the national standard.
- Liebowitz and Margolis are skeptical that any convincing claim of path dependent selection of an objectively inferior standard has been established.
- If something's been shown to be better, do you stick with the old, inferior standard?
- Zhang attributed the decline in safety qualifications to price wars that encouraged some firms to reduce standards and begin using inferior materials.
- Meals offered at the restaurant were of inferior quality and the selection extremely poor.
- I came to the conclusion that all the food available in the village was of inferior quality and meant for consumption by the poor with low purchasing power.
- First, because of the public good (positive externality) nature of education, society at large loses from inferior standards of education.
- Courtney began outsourcing manufacturing to India and Pakistan, but was disappointed with the inferior quality and poor fit.
- Only a handful of paintings on show in London were of an inferior standard or problematic in some other way.
Synonyms second-rate, substandard, low-quality, low-grade, downmarket, indifferent, mediocre, unsatisfactory, shoddy, shabby, deficient, flawed, imperfect, unsound - 1.2Law (of a court or tribunal) able to have its decisions overturned by a higher court.
〔律〕（法庭，特别法庭）下级的 Example sentencesExamples - One task that it assumed became the supervisory jurisdiction of inferior courts and tribunals.
- Judicial review is available as a remedy for mistakes of law made by inferior courts and tribunals only.
- This applies to statements made by judges, counsel, witnesses or the parties, in both superior and inferior courts.
- Maybe it does not apply because it is an inferior tribunal, but just assume for the moment it does.
- A Magistrates' Court is, however, an inferior court.
- 1.3Economics Denoting goods or services that are in greater demand during a recession than in a boom, e.g., secondhand clothes.
〔经济〕（商品，服务）需求量在衰退期中较之繁荣期更大的，低档的 Example sentencesExamples - A price fall leads to a rise in real income which could result in falling demand if the good is strongly inferior.
- These are referred to as inferior goods and examples in most western countries include rural bus services and household coal.
- Income effects on attendance were found to be negative, which supports the idea found in previous research of hockey as an inferior good.
- True inferior goods are not common, but particular goods and services may benefit from some customers who buy more as incomes fall.
2Anatomy
Low or lower in position. 〔主剖〕（位置）下方的，下位的，靠下的 ulcers located in the inferior and posterior wall of the duodenum 位于十二指肠下部和后部肠壁的溃疡。 Example sentencesExamples - The inferior thyroid, and intercostal bronchial, gastric, and phrenic veins provide venous drainage.
- The most pronounced changes involve the left posterior inferior cerebellar artery.
- He underwent an excision of a portion of the anterior temporal lobe and inferior temporal gyrus.
- The lateral part of the anterior commissure traverses the inferior part of the corpus striatum.
- The first lumbar may provide the inferior phrenic or middle suprarenal.
- 2.1Botany (of the ovary of a flower) situated below the sepals and enclosed in the receptacle.
〔植〕（子房）下位的，在下的 Example sentencesExamples - The flowers, when looked at through a magnifier, reveal five yellowish-green petals surrounding an inferior ovary.
- Four sepals are fused to form a long slender floral tube with an inferior ovary.
- The members of subgen. Bomarea s.str. have an inferior ovary and a dehiscent capsule.
- Each disc flower is surrounded by a sharp-pointed, chaffy bract and consists of a basal inferior ovary, two pappus scales, and a tubular corolla.
3Printing
(of a letter, figure, or symbol) written or printed below the line. （字母，数字，符号）下标的 Example sentencesExamples - Differences between the values indicated by the same inferior letter are significant at the 5% level.
- The character may also have an attached superior or inferior figure.
- Reservation 2: Nunn points out that inferior lines have, for the most part, been left out of this book.
nounˌinˈfirēərˌɪnˈfɪriər 1A person lower than another in rank, status, or ability. （等级）下级的，（地位）下等的，（质量）次的 her social and intellectual inferiors 社会地位和知识水平不如她的人。 Example sentencesExamples - Suddenly people deemed their social inferiors (Irish and British alike) were rising in the social ladder while those who would normally have been in the elite were rapidly declining.
- Furthermore, how much one had to share with guests and followers seems to have been a function of the number of social inferiors within one's orbit.
- Other doctors felt him arrogant, aloof and overbearing towards those whom he considered his intellectual inferiors.
- The point was to distinguish a given individual or family from others - whether equals or social inferiors.
- It is most evident when he refers to the middle class - especially those members of it who, through idealism or voyeurism, decided to slum it with their social inferiors.
- Nissenbaum argues that when the head of household offered presents largely to social inferiors who appeared at the door, it made sense to offer practical items from the home's own store.
- You will have to put up with the most difficult of people, live in drafty rectories, deal with ignorant superiors, and be scoffed at by your spiritual and intellectual inferiors.
- This guy was trying so hard to seem charming to what he saw as a desperate social inferior, that he didn't even notice how stupid he sounded.
- She was a cruel and vicious woman, and did not hesitate to inflict pain upon her inferiors, be they slaves, servants, or her own flesh and blood.
- Those who use ‘male privilege’ treat partners like servants or inferiors, consistently make unilateral decisions, and insist on maintaining stereotypical gender roles.
- Like their social inferiors, however, the middling group was also highly vulnerable to new taxes, economic dislocations and other pressures.
- If you wanted to insult a social inferior, you displayed your contempt by bludgeoning him with a cane.
- I was doing my duty, co-ordinating with my inferiors.
- But Grandma Biscotti didn't trust Sicilians and looked down on them as social inferiors.
- Given that there are no animals contesting their status as inferiors to mankind, where can a human advocate of animal emancipation possibly go from there?
- The word once meant very literally the voluntary descent from one's rank or dignity in intercourse with an inferior.
- Maintain social status by winning at least as much as your inferiors and climb the ranks by winning more than your superiors.
- Her husband would respect her as a leader respects his devoted subordinates - friends but inferiors.
- Undoubtedly princes, peers and other great nobles of old stock resented the power thus vested in men whom they regarded as social inferiors.
- A combination of religious and cultural change, reinforced by political pressure from governments, began to wean them away from their social inferiors.
Synonyms subordinate, junior, underling, minion, menial 2Printing
An inferior letter, figure, or symbol. 〔印刷〕下标字母；下标数字；下标符号 Example sentencesExamples - This mark indicates that the letter is superior to an inferior.
OriginLate Middle English (in inferior (sense 2 of the adjective)): from Latin, comparative of inferus ‘low’. |