Definition of "inferior"

Lower in rank, status, or quality.  quotations

1. Of low rank, standard or quality.  examples

2. (law) (of a court or tribunal) Susceptible to having its decisions overturned by a higher court.  examples

3. (economics) Denoting goods or services which are in greater demand during a recession than in a boom, for example second-hand clothes.  examples

Located below:

1. (anatomy) Situated further below (another part of the body), a direction that in humans corresponds to caudad.  examples

2. (zoology) Situated in a relatively low posterior or ventral position in a quadrupedal body.

3. (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).  examples

4. (botany) On the side of a flower which is next to the bract.  examples

5. (typography) Printed in subscript.  examples

6. (astronomy) Below the horizon.  examples

(astronomy) Nearer to the Sun than the Earth is.  examples

A person of lower rank, stature, or ability to another.  examples

(printing) An inferior letter, figure, or symbol.  examples