Inferior

Inferior means of lower station, rank, degree, or grade (see inferior at Wiktionary). It may also refer to:

  • Inferiority complex
  • An anatomical term of location
  • Inferior angle of the scapula, in the human skeleton

Famous quotes containing the word inferior:

    “During the long ages of class rule, which are just beginning to cease, only one form of sovereignty has been assigned to all men—that, namely, over all women. Upon these feeble and inferior companions all men were permitted to avenge the indignities they suffered from so many men to whom they were forced to submit.”
    —Mary Putnam Jacobi (1842–1906)

    “To have more virtues than talents is to be a superior person; to have more talents than virtues is to be an inferior one.”
    —Chinese proverb.

    “Technique is the test of sincerity. If a thing isn’t worth getting the technique to say, it is of inferior value.”
    —Ezra Pound (1885–1972)