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Inferior vs. Substandard — What's the Difference?

Inferior vs. Substandard — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Inferior and Substandard

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Inferior

Lower in rank, status, or quality
Schooling in inner-city areas was inferior to that in the rest of the country

Substandard

Failing to meet a standard; below standard.

Inferior

Low or lower in position
Ulcers located in the inferior and posterior wall of the duodenum

Substandard

Of, relating to, or indicating a pattern of linguistic usage that does not conform to that of the prestige group in a speech community or to that of the standard language.

Inferior

(of a letter, figure, or symbol) written or printed below the line.
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Substandard

Not in accord with notions of good English; nonstandard. See Usage Note at nonstandard.

Inferior

A person lower than another in rank, status, or ability
Her social and intellectual inferiors

Substandard

Of inferior quality; not meeting the minimum quality requirements.
They built this with substandard parts. No wonder it collapsed.

Inferior

An inferior letter, figure, or symbol.

Substandard

Not conforming to the standard variety; nonstandard.

Inferior

Low or lower in order, degree, or rank
Captain is an inferior rank to major.

Substandard

Falling short of some prescribed norm;
Substandard housing

Inferior

Low or lower in quality, value, or estimation
Inferior craft.
Felt inferior to his older sibling.

Substandard

Used of merchandise

Inferior

Second-rate; poor
An inferior translation.

Inferior

Situated under or beneath.

Inferior

(Botany) Located below the perianth and other floral parts. Used of an ovary.

Inferior

(Anatomy) Located beneath or directed downward.

Inferior

(Printing) Set below the normal line of type; subscript.

Inferior

Orbiting between Earth and the sun
Mercury is an inferior planet.

Inferior

Lying below the horizon.

Inferior

A person lower in rank, status, or accomplishment than another.

Inferior

(Printing) An inferior character, such as the number 2 in CO2.

Inferior

Lower in rank, status, or quality.
Anna had always felt inferior to her brother due to poor school grades.
The pathological liar was morally inferior to his much nicer constituents.

Inferior

Of low rank, standard or quality.
An inferior officer

Inferior

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

Inferior

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

Inferior

Located below:

Inferior

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

Inferior

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

Inferior

(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.

Inferior

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

Inferior

(typography) Printed in subscript.
An inferior figure or letter

Inferior

(astronomy) Below the horizon.
The inferior part of a meridian

Inferior

(astronomy) Nearer to the Sun than the Earth is.
The inferior or interior planets; an inferior conjunction of Mercury or Venus

Inferior

A person of lower rank, stature, or ability to another.
As you are my inferior, I can tell you to do anything I want.

Inferior

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

Inferior

Lower in place, rank, value, excellence, etc.; less important or valuable; subordinate; underneath; beneath.
A thousand inferior and particular propositions.
The body, or, as some love to call it, our inferior nature.
Whether they are equal or inferior to my other poems, an author is the most improper judge.

Inferior

Poor or mediocre; as, an inferior quality of goods.

Inferior

Nearer the sun than the earth is; as, the inferior or interior planets; an inferior conjunction of Mercury or Venus.

Inferior

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.

Inferior

Junior or subordinate in rank; as, an inferior officer.

Inferior

A person lower in station, rank, intellect, etc., than another.
A great person gets more by obliging his inferior than by disdaining him.

Inferior

One of lesser rank or station or quality

Inferior

A character or symbol set or printed or written beneath or slightly below and to the side of another character

Inferior

Of or characteristic of low rank or importance

Inferior

Of low or inferior quality

Inferior

Inferior in rank or status;
The junior faculty
A lowly corporal
Petty officialdom
A subordinate functionary

Inferior

Written or printed below and to one side of another character

Inferior

Having an orbit between the sun and the Earth's orbit;
Mercury and Venus are inferior planets

Inferior

Lower than a given reference point;
Inferior alveolar artery

Inferior

Falling short of some prescribed norm;
Substandard housing

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