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inferior

/ɪnˈfɪɹ.i.ɚ/ adjetivo B2

En español: inferior, malmatado

  1. 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.
  2. Of low rank, standard or quality. · an inferior officer· Due to the internet issue, the system generates an inferior audio file.
  3. (of a court or tribunal) Susceptible to having its decisions overturned by a higher court.
  4. Denoting goods or services which are in greater demand during a recession than in a boom, for example second-hand clothes.
  5. Situated further below (another part of the body), a direction that in humans corresponds to caudad.
  6. Situated in a relatively low posterior or ventral position in a quadrupedal body.
  7. 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. On the side of a flower which is next to the bract.
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He was twenty-two years old; he considered architecture to be truly an art; and he honestly believed—though he would not have dared to admit it in New York—that the Flatiron Building was inferior in design to the great cathedral in Milan.
Six stories from The Four Million, p. 26 · C1
Her air was not conciliating, nor was her manner of receiving them such as to make her visitors forget their inferior rank.
Pride and Prejudice, p. 187 · B2
Georgiana’s reception of them was very civil, but attended with all that embarrassment which, though proceeding from shyness and the fear of doing wrong, would easily give to those who felt themselves inferior the belief of her being proud and reserved.
Pride and Prejudice, p. 300 · B2
Bennet and Kitty, though she was perfectly unknown to them, even inferior to what Elizabeth felt.
Pride and Prejudice, p. 332 · B2

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