inferior

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
inferior/ɪnˈfɪəriə(r)/

▶adjective

• 1 lower in rank, status, or quality.

  ■ of low standard or quality.

  ■ Law (of a court or tribunal) susceptible to having its decisions overturned by a higher court.

• 2 chiefly Anatomy low or lower in position.

  ■ Botany (of the ovary of a flower) situated below the sepals.

• 3 (of a letter or symbol) written or printed below the line.

• 4 Economics denoting goods or services which are in greater demand during a recession.

▶noun

• 1 a person lower than another in rank, status, or ability.

• 2 Printing an inferior letter, figure, or symbol.

– derivatives
inferiority noun,
inferiorly adverb (Anatomy).

– origin ME: from L., compar. of inferus ‘low’.