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inferior - 20 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | inferior |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person of lesser rank, importance |
| Synonyms: | adherent, attendant, auxiliary, deputy, disciple, follower, hanger-on, hireling, junior, menial, minion, minor, peon, satellite, second banana*, subaltern, subject, subordinate, sycophant, underling |
| Antonyms: | superior |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | inferior |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | less in rank, importance |
| Synonyms: | bottom, junior, less, lesser, lower, menial, minor, minus, nether, peon, second, secondary, smaller, subjacent, subordinate, subsidiary, under, underneath, back seat, bottom-rung, entry-level, second-banana, second-fiddle, second-string |
| Antonyms: | best, better, extraordinary, first-class, first-rate, foremost, superior |
| Main Entry: | inferior |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | poor, second-rate |
| Synonyms: | average, bad, base, common, fair, good-for-nothing*, hack*, imperfect, indifferent, junk*, lemon*, lousy, mean, mediocre, middling, ordinary, paltry, sad, sorry*, substandard, tawdry, two-bit*, worse, wretched, déclassé, low-grade, low-rent, poorer, second-class |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | bastard |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | illegitimate |
| Synonyms: | adulterated, counterfeit, fake, false, imperfect, impure, inferior, irregular, misbegotten, mixed, mongrel, natural, phony, sham, spurious, baseborn, misborn, suppositious, ungenuine |
| Antonyms: | legitimate |
| Main Entry: | below par |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | second-rate in quality |
| Synonyms: | below average, imperfect, inferior, lacking, off, poor, substandard, under the weather*, wanting, not oneself, off-form |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | contemptible |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | despicable, shameful |
| Synonyms: | abhorrent, abject, abominable, bad, base, beggarly, cheap, crass, degenerate, detestable, dirty, disgusting, hateful, heel, ignoble, ignominious, inferior, low, lowest, mean, odious, outcast, paltry, pitiful, poor, sad, shabby, sordid, sorry*, unworthy, vile, worthless, wretched, currish, despisable, low-down*, pitiable, scummy, scurvy, swinish |
| Notes: | contemptible means deserving contempt, while contemptuous means bestowing contempt; the first sense of contemptuous was 'despising law and order' |
| Antonyms: | admirable, good, honorable, loved, respectable, worthy, admired |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | crappy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | poor |
| Synonyms: | cheap, inferior, lousy, shoddy, trashy, useless, worthless, junky, sub-par |
| Main Entry: | crummy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | lousy |
| Synonyms: | cheap, contemptible, crappy*, inferior, miserable, pathetic, poor, rotten, second-rate, shabby, useless, worthless, grotty, sub-par, third-rate |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | deficient |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | imperfect, inadequate |
| Synonyms: | amiss, bad, damaged, defective, exiguous, faulty, impaired, incomplete, inferior, infrequent, injured, insufficient, lacking, meager, rare, scanty*, scarce, second fiddle*, second string, short, shy, sketchy, skimpy, unequal, unfinished, unsatisfactory, wanting, weak, flawed, found wanting, marred, not cut out for, not enough, not make it, not up to scratch, outta gas, scant, third string, unassembled |
| Antonyms: | adequate, ample, enough, excessive, faultless, flawless, perfect, satisfactory, sufficient, superfluous |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | ignoble |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | lowly, unworthy |
| Synonyms: | abject, base, coarse, common, contemptible, corrupt, craven, dastardly, degenerate, degraded, despicable, disgraceful, dishonorable, heinous, humble, infamous, inferior, lewd, low, mean, menial, modest, ordinary, peasant, petty, plain, plebeian, poor, rotten, servile, shabby, shameful, simple, sordid, vile, vulgar, wicked, wretched, wrong, baseborn, scurvy, unwashed |
| Antonyms: | dignified, grand, high, honorable, noble, reputable, respectable, worthy |
| Main Entry: | ineffective/ineffectual |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | weak, useless |
| Synonyms: | abortive, barren, bootless, feckless, feeble, fruitless, futile, idle, impotent, inadequate, incompetent, indecisive, inefficient, inept, inferior, innocuous, inoperative, lame, limited, nugatory, null, null and void*, paltry, powerless, spineless, unable, unavailing, unfruitful, unproductive, unprofitable, unsuccessful, vain, void, withered, worthless, anticlimactic, defeasible, forceless, inefficacious, invertebrate, neutralized |
| Antonyms: | competent, effective, effectual, efficient, powerful, strong, useful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | junior |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | subordinate, younger |
| Synonyms: | inferior, lesser, lower, minor, second, secondary, second-string |
| Antonyms: | elder, older, senior |
| Main Entry: | lousy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very bad |
| Synonyms: | awful, base, contemptible, despicable, dirty, execrable, faulty, harmful, hateful, horrible, inferior, low, mean, miserable, outrageous, poor, rotten, second-rate*, shoddy, slovenly, terrible, unpopular, unwelcome, vicious, vile, disliked, no good |
| Antonyms: | good, great, magnificent, wonderful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | mediocre |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | average, commonplace |
| Synonyms: | colorless, common, conventional, decent, dull, fair, fair to middling, humdrum*, indifferent, inferior, insignificant, intermediate, mainstream, mean, medium, middling, moderate, ordinary, passable, pedestrian, run-of-the-mill*, second-rate, so-so*, standard, tolerable, undistinguished, unexceptional, uninspired, vanilla*, characterless, fairish, no great shakes, of poor quality |
| Antonyms: | exceptional, extraordinary, inferior, superior, unusual |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | minor |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | insignificant, small |
| Synonyms: | accessory, bush-league*, casual, dependent, dinky*, inconsequential, inferior, junior, lesser, light, low, minus, negligible, paltry, petty, piddling, secondary, slight, small-time, smaller, subordinate, subsidiary, tacky, trifling, trivial, two-bit*, unimportant, below the mark, inconsiderable, second-string, small-fry, younger |
| Antonyms: | adult, large, major, significant, greater |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | petty |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | trivial, insignificant |
| Synonyms: | base, casual, cheap, contemptible, frivolous, inferior, irrelevant, junior, lesser, light, little, lower, measly, minor, narrow-minded, negligible, niggling*, paltry, peanut*, picayune, piddling*, scratch, secondary, shabby, shallow, slight, small, small-minded, subordinate, trifling, two-bit*, unimportant, inconsequent, inconsiderable, inessential, nickel-and-dime, penny-ante, pettifogging, shoestring* |
| Antonyms: | consequential, important, major, necessary, prominent, significant, useful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | puny |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | small, insignificant |
| Synonyms: | diminutive, feeble, fragile, frail, inconsequential, inferior, infirm, little, measly*, minor, niggling*, nothing, paltry, peanut*, petty, picayune, piddling*, runt, stunted, tiny, trifling, trivial, two-bit*, underfed, undersized, undeveloped, unsound, unsubstantial, weak, wee*, worthless, zero*, zilch*, half-pint, peewee*, pint-sized, shrimp*, small time, small-fry, unconsequential, weakly |
| Antonyms: | big, giant, huge, large |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | second |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | next; subordinate |
| Synonyms: | additional, alternative, another, double, duplicate, extra, following, further, inferior, lesser, lower, other, place, repeated, reproduction, secondary, subsequent, supporting, twin, unimportant, next in order, runner-up, succeeding |
| Main Entry: | shoddy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | in bad shape |
| Synonyms: | base, broken-down, cheap, cheesy*, common, dilapidated, dingy, disgraceful, dishonorable, disreputable, gaudy, ignominious, inferior, inglorious, makeshift, mean, paltry, plastic, poor, pretentious, run-down, scruffy*, second-rate*, seedy, shabby, shady, shameful, sleazy*, slipshod, tacky*, tawdry, trashy, discreditable, junky, not up to snuff, unrespectable |
| Antonyms: | fine, good, nice |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | subject |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | at the mercy of; answerable |
| Synonyms: | accountable, apt, at one's feet, bound by, captive, collateral, conditional, contingent, controlled, dependent, directed, disposed, enslaved, exposed, governed, in danger of, inferior, liable, likely, obedient, open, prone, provisional, ruled, satellite, secondary, sensitive, servile, slavish, sub*, subaltern, subjugated, submissive, subordinate, subservient, substract, susceptible, tentative, tributary, under, vulnerable |
| Antonyms: | master |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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