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Synonyms for inferiority
in·fe·ri·or·i·ty
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Wiktionary
inferioritynoun
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superiorityinferioritynoun
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superiorityinferioritynoun
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superiorityinferioritynoun
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superiority
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
inferiority
Synonyms:
subordination, minority, poverty, mediocrity, subjection, servitude, depressionAntonyms:
superiority, majority, excellence, eminence, independence, mastery, exaltation, elevation
Princeton's WordNet
inferiority, lower status, lower ranknoun
the state of being inferior
Synonyms:
low quality, unfavorable position, lower rank, lower statusAntonyms:
superiority, high qualityinferiority, low qualitynoun
an inferior quality
Synonyms:
low quality, unfavorable position, lower rank, lower statusAntonyms:
high quality, superiorityinferiority, unfavorable positionnoun
the quality of being a competitive disadvantage
Synonyms:
low quality, unfavorable position, lower rank, lower statusAntonyms:
high quality, superiority
Matched Categories
Dictionary of English Synonymes
inferioritynoun
Synonyms:
lower state or conditioninferioritynoun
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subordinationinferioritynoun
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mediocrity, poor quality
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
inferioritynoun
Synonyms:
subordinacy, mediocrity, deficiency
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Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#3761 | poverty | |
#4452 | depression | |
#4956 | minority | |
#41855 | mediocrity | |
#45272 | servitude | |
#47817 | subordination | |
#52274 | inferiority | |
#59900 | subjection |
How to use inferiority in a sentence?
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.
Exaggerated sensitiveness is an expression of the feeling of inferiority.
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.
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.
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.
Translations for inferiority
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- عقدة النقصArabic
- inferioritatCatalan, Valencian
- MinderwertigkeitGerman
- malsuperecoEsperanto
- inferioridadSpanish
- alemmuus, huonommuus, alempiarvoisuusFinnish
- inférioritéFrench
- inferioridadeGalician
- inferioritàItalian
- 賎, 下等, 損, 劣位, 不利, 劣勢, 下賎Japanese
- minderwaardigheidDutch
- неполноце́нностьRussian
- underlägsenhetSwedish
- தாழ்வுTamil
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