Synonyms and Antonyms of inferior
1
situated lower down
- creatures that inhabit the dark, inferior depths of the ocean
2
of little or less value or merit
- a girl who has always felt inferior to her older sister
junior, lesser, lower, low-level, petty, smaller, subordinate, under
average, common, fair, middling, ordinary
amiss, bad, defective, unsatisfactory, wrong
deficient, inadequate, insufficient, unacceptable
littler, slighter, smaller
jerkwater, low-rent, one-horse, small-time, two-bit
major, more, primary, senior
choice, exceptional, first-class, first-rate, high-grade, premium, prime, select, selected
acceptable, adequate, sufficient
3
belonging to the class of people of low social or economic rank
- at one time, the upper crust liked to believe that inferior people were fit only to be servants
baseborn, common, humble, ignoble, low, low-life, lowborn, lower-class, lowly, lumpen, mean, plebeian, prole, proletarian, unwashed, vulgar
aristocratic, blue-blooded, genteel, gentle, grand, great, high, highborn, highbred, lofty, noble, patrician, upper-class, upper-crust, wellborn
4
falling short of a standard
- an inferior science textbook that was out-of-date the day that it was published
bad, bastard, bush, bush-league, crummy (also crumby), deficient, dissatisfactory, ill, lame, lousy, off, paltry, poor, punk, sour, suboptimal, subpar, substandard, unacceptable, unsatisfactory, wack [slang], wanting, wretched, wrong
abysmal, atrocious, awful, bitchin' [slang], brutal, damnable, deplorable, detestable, disastrous, dreadful, execrable, gnarly [slang], horrendous, horrible, pathetic, stinky, sucky [slang], terrible, unspeakable
defective
