inferior
adjective
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falling short of some prescribed normdeficient
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of or characteristic of low rank or importance
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of low or inferior quality
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having an orbit between the sun and the Earth's orbit“Mercury and Venus are inferior planets”
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written or printed below and to one side of another charactersubscript
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lower than a given reference point“inferior alveolar artery”
noun
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a character or symbol set or printed or written beneath or slightly below and to the side of another charactersubscript
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one of lesser rank or station or quality