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inferiour

inferiour is the obsolete spelling of inferior.

inferiour is the obsolete form of inferior.

Meaning of inferior

Adjective

inferior (comparative more inferior, superlative most inferior)

  1. Lower in rank, status, or quality.
    • Anna had always felt inferior to her brother due to poor school grades.
    1. Of low rank, standard or quality.
      • an inferior officer
    2. (of a court or tribunal) Susceptible to having its decisions overturned by a higher court.
    3. Denoting goods or services which are in greater demand during a recession than in a boom, for example second-hand clothes.
  2. Situated further below (another part of the body), a direction that in humans corresponds to caudad.
  3. Situated in a relatively low posterior or ventral position in a quadrupedal body.

See all 13 meanings of inferior

Forms of inferiour

Adjective
comparativemore inferiour
superlativemost inferiour
Noun
pluralinferiours

Words formed from inferiour

Questions about inferiour

What is inferiour the obsolete spelling of?
Inferiour is the obsolete spelling of inferior.

Words near inferiour in the dictionary

  1. inferiorly
  2. inferiormost
  3. inferiorness
  4. inferiors
  5. inferiosuperior
  6. inferiour
  7. inferiourity
  8. inferiourly
  9. inferiours
  10. infernal
  11. infernal device

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