| Main Entry: | inferior |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | less in rank, importance |
Synonyms: |
back seat, bottom, bottom-rung, entry-level, junior, less, lesser, lower, menial, minor, minus, nether, peon, second, second-banana, second-fiddle, second-string, secondary, smaller, subjacent, subordinate, subsidiary, under, underneath |
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, déclassé, fair, good-for-nothing, hack*, imperfect, indifferent, junk*, lemon, lousy, low-grade, low-rent, mean, mediocre, middling, ordinary, paltry, poorer, sad, second-class, sorry*, substandard, tawdry, two-bit, worse, wretched |
| 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 |
| Main Entry: | bad |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | poor quality |
Synonyms: |
abominable, amiss, atrocious, awful, bad news, beastly, blah*, bottom out, bummer, careless, cheap, cheesy*, crappy*, cruddy, crummy, defective, deficient, diddly, dissatisfactory, downer, dreadful, erroneous, fallacious, faulty, garbage, godawful, grody, gross*, grungy, icky, imperfect, inadequate, incorrect, inferior, junky, lousy*, not good, off, poor, raunchy*, rough, sad, slipshod, stinking, substandard, synthetic, the pits, unacceptable, unsatisfactory |
| Notes: | badly is an adverb to describe an activity; bad is an adjective to describe a condition or state |
Antonyms: |
good, honest, reputable, right, upright, virtuous, worthy |
| Main Entry: | bastard |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | illegitimate |
Synonyms: |
adulterated, baseborn, counterfeit, fake, false, imperfect, impure, inferior, irregular, misbegotten, misborn, mixed, mongrel, natural, phony, sham, spurious, suppositious, ungenuine |
Antonyms: |
legitimate |
| Main Entry: | below |
| Part of Speech: | preposition |
| Definition: | less than; beneath |
Synonyms: |
inferior, lesser, lower, subject, subordinate, unworthy |
Antonyms: |
above, more, over |
| Main Entry: | below par |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | second-rate in quality |
Synonyms: |
below average, imperfect, inferior, lacking, not oneself, off, off-form, poor, substandard, under the weather, wanting |
| Main Entry: | coarse |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | rough, unrefined |
Synonyms: |
chapped, coarse-grained, crude, grainy, granular, harsh, homespun, impure, inferior, loose, lumpy, mediocre, particulate, poor quality, rough-hewn, rugged, unfinished, unpolished, unprocessed, unpurified |
Antonyms: |
delicate, refined, smooth, soft |
| Main Entry: | common |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | low, coarse |
Synonyms: |
Philistine, baseborn, characterless, cheap, colorless, crass, declassé, hack, hackneyed, impure, inferior, low-grade, mean, middling, nondescript, passable, pedestrian, plebeian, poor, prosy, raffish, second-class, second-rate, shoddy, sleazy, stale, trite, undistinguished, vulgar |
Antonyms: |
aristocratic, cultured, excellent, high, noble, refined, sophisticated, superior |
| Main Entry: | contemptible |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | despicable, shameful |
Synonyms: |
abhorrent, abject, abominable, bad, base, beggarly, cheap, crass, currish, degenerate, despisable, detestable, dirty, disgusting, hateful, heel, ignoble, ignominious, inferior, low, low-down, lowest, mean, odious, outcast, paltry, pitiable, pitiful, poor, sad, scummy, scurvy, shabby, sordid, sorry*, swinish, unworthy, vile, worthless, wretched |
Antonyms: |
admirable, admired, good, honorable, loved, respectable, worthy |