Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being inferior, especially in degree or quality; a lower state or condition.
- noun In logic, the character of a sign, name, proposition, or inference which is applicable to only a part of the cases to which another is applicable.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- The state of being inferior; a lower state or condition.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The quality or state of being
inferior . - noun An inferior
quality . - noun The quality of being a competitive disadvantage.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an inferior quality
- noun the state of being inferior
- noun the quality of being a competitive disadvantage
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Examples
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The fact that the governments did not use the term "inferior" does not change the fact that Hawaiian academic inferiority is the basis of their argument.
Balkinization 2007
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The fact that the governments did not use the term "inferior" does not change the fact that Hawaiian academic inferiority is the basis of their argument.
Balkinization 2007
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Our sense of inferiority is not, happily, one of our exports.
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He is deeply conscious of his own inferiority from the narrowness of the scope in which he has lived during the course of his past life.
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This sense of inferiority translates into the "chip on the shoulder" attitude.
IOL: News 2009
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To say that it’s troubling that she has a starting assumption that African Americans are genetically disposed to be less intelligent than whites, and that she needs evidence to disprove her starting assumption of their intellectual inferiority, is not to argue that she’s a racist because she didn’t consider whether African Americans may be more intelligent than whites.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Pollak on Uniquely Israeli Stupidity 2010
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Flann O’Brien’s relative inferiority is as much a matter of style as of substance.
The Last Laugh Joseph O'Neil 2008
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Flann O’Brien’s relative inferiority is as much a matter of style as of substance.
The Last Laugh Joseph O'Neil 2008
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Flann O’Brien’s relative inferiority is as much a matter of style as of substance.
The Last Laugh Joseph O'Neil 2008
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If you don't risk equality and you trap yourself in inferiority.
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