inferior

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
/ɪnˈfɪə.ɹi.ə/|/ɪnˈfɪːɹɪjə/    /ɪnˈfɪɹ.i.ɚ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A person of lower rank, stature, or ability to another.
    — ,
  2. An inferior letter, figure, or symbol.
形容词 adj.
  1. Lower in rank, status, or quality.
    — Anna had always felt inferior to her brother due to poor school grades.
  2. Lower in rank, status, or quality.; Of low rank, standard or quality.
    — an inferior officer
  3. Lower in rank, status, or quality.; (of a court or tribunal) Susceptible to having its decisions overturned by a higher court.
  4. Lower in rank, status, or quality.; Denoting goods or services which are in greater demand during a recession than in a boom, for example second-hand clothes.
  5. Located below:; Situated further below (another part of the body), a direction that in humans corresponds to caudad.
  6. Located below:; Situated in a relatively low posterior or ventral position in a quadrupedal body.
  7. Located below:; 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).
  8. Located below:; On the side of a flower which is next to the bract.
  9. Located below:; Printed in subscript.
    — an inferior figure or letter
  10. Located below:; Below the horizon.
    — the inferior part of a meridian
  11. Nearer to the Sun than the Earth is.
    — the inferior or interior planets

词形变化

more inferior comparative most inferior superlative inferiour alternative inferiors plural inferiour alternative

词源

词源 1
Borrowed from Latin īnferior (“lower in situation or place”), comparative of īnferus (“below, underneath”).
词源 2
Borrowed from Latin īnferior (“lower in situation or place”), comparative of īnferus (“below, underneath”).
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