inferior meaning
EN
[ɪnˈfɪ(ə)ɹiɚ] [-ɪəriə(r)] 
US WInferior
- Inferior means of lower station, rank, degree, or grade. It may also refer to:
- Inferiority complex
- An anatomical term of location
- Inferior angle of the scapula, in the human skeleton
- The Inferior, a 2007 novel by Peadar Ó Guilín
- NounPLinferiorsSUF-ior
- Adjective
- of lower quality.
- Anna had always felt inferior to her brother due to poor school grades.
- of lower rank.
- an inferior officer
- located below.
- an inferior figure or letter
- (botany) 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.
- (botany) On the side of a flower which is next to the bract; anterior.
- (astronomy) Nearer to the Sun than the Earth is.
- the inferior or interior planets; an inferior conjunction of Mercury or Venus
- (astronomy) Below the horizon.
- the inferior part of a meridian
- of lower quality.
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- The original floor was still there: wide boards, laid tongue-in-groove, not the inferior subfloor they had predicted.
- Overaction of the inferior oblique muscle (IOOM) is manifest by overelevation of the adducted eye.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of inferior in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Adjectives
- Uncomparable adjectives
- Uncomparable adjectives
- Nouns
- Countable nouns
- Countable nouns
- Adjectives
- en inferiority
- en inferiors
- en inferiorly
- en inferiorness
- en inferiorities
Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "inferior" is an adjective, more specifically, an uncomparable adjective. It's also a noun, more specifically, a countable noun.