inferior
noun/ɪnˈfɪəriə(r)/
/ɪnˈfɪriər/
- a person who is not as good as somebody else; a person who is lower in rank or status
- She considered everyone her intellectual inferior.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- intellectual
- social
- consider somebody
Word Originlate Middle English (originally as an anatomical term meaning ‘in a lower position’): from Latin, comparative of inferus ‘low’.
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