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  1. inferioritynoun

    Antonyms:
    superiority

  2. inferioritynoun

    Antonyms:
    superiority

  3. inferioritynoun

    Antonyms:
    superiority

  4. inferioritynoun

    Antonyms:
    superiority

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms0.0 / 0 votes

  1. inferiority

    Synonyms:
    subordination, minority, poverty, mediocrity, subjection, servitude, depression

    Antonyms:
    superiority, majority, excellence, eminence, independence, mastery, exaltation, elevation

Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  1. inferiority, lower status, lower ranknoun

    the state of being inferior

    Synonyms:
    low quality, unfavorable position, lower rank, lower status

    Antonyms:
    superiority, high quality

  2. inferiority, low qualitynoun

    an inferior quality

    Synonyms:
    low quality, unfavorable position, lower rank, lower status

    Antonyms:
    high quality, superiority

  3. inferiority, unfavorable positionnoun

    the quality of being a competitive disadvantage

    Synonyms:
    low quality, unfavorable position, lower rank, lower status

    Antonyms:
    high quality, superiority

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Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. inferioritynoun

    Synonyms:
    lower state or condition

  2. inferioritynoun

    Synonyms:
    subordination

  3. inferioritynoun

    Synonyms:
    mediocrity, poor quality

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. inferioritynoun

    Synonyms:
    subordinacy, mediocrity, deficiency

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Words popularity by usage frequency

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#3761poverty
#4452depression
#4956minority
#41855mediocrity
#45272servitude
#47817subordination
#52274inferiority
#59900subjection

How to use inferiority in a sentence?

  1. Janai Nelson:

    My first reaction was disbelief and disappointment, in a case with this much significance, for a Supreme Court justice to make comments that amplify the myth of racial inferiority, is deeply disheartening.

  2. Alfred Adler:

    Exaggerated sensitiveness is an expression of the feeling of inferiority.

  3. Danielle Atkinson:

    If we teach a generation of young people that, after the Civil War, the Emancipation Proclamation and all of the events of the 1860s, attempts to integrate free people failed and there were repressive laws enacted that weren't repealed for almost a century, then we're going to have different conversations, we're going to have historical context for why the country is the way it is, instead of thinking that the fact that Black people are at the bottom of every metric is indicative of our deficit or our inferiority.

  4. Donald Trump:

    The owner is a guy named Mort Zuckerman who’s got a total inferiority complex and he’s had [it] for years, he’s jealous as hell because he would have loved to have done it himself.

  5. Mark Twain, What Is Man? (1906):

    The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.


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