different between inferior vs unpleasant
inferior
English
Alternative forms
- inferiour (obsolete)
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin ?nferior (“lower in situation or place”), comparative of ?nferus (“below, underneath”).
Pronunciation
- enPR: ?nfîr??r
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?n?f??.?i.?/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?n?f??.i.?/
- Rhymes: -???i?(?)
Adjective
inferior (comparative more inferior, superlative most inferior)
- Lower in rank, status, or quality.
- Of low rank, standard or quality.
- (law) (of a court or tribunal) Susceptible to having its decisions overturned by a higher court.
- (economics) Denoting goods or services which are in greater demand during a recession than in a boom, for example second-hand clothes.
- Of low rank, standard or quality.
- Located below:
- (anatomy) Situated below another and especially another similar superior part of an upright body.
- (zoology) Situated in a relatively low posterior or ventral position in a quadrupedal body.
- (botany) Situated below some other organ; said of a calyx when free from the ovary, and therefore below it, or of an ovary with an adherent and therefore inferior calyx.
- (botany) On the side of a flower which is next to the bract.
- Synonym: anterior
- (typography) Printed in subscript.
- (astronomy) Below the horizon.
- (astronomy) Nearer to the Sun than the Earth is.
Usage notes
Inferior and superior are generally followed by to; than is seen sometimes, but is viewed as wrong.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:bad
Antonyms
- superior
Coordinate terms
- (dentistry location adjectives) anterior,? apical,? apicocoronal,? axial,? buccal,? buccoapical,? buccocervical,? buccogingival,? buccolabial,? buccolingual,? bucco-occlusal,? buccopalatal,? cervical,? coronal,? coronoapical,? distal,? distoapical,? distobuccal,? distocervical,? distocoronal,? distofacial,? distogingival,? distoincisal,? distolingual,? disto-occlusal,? distoclusal,? distocclusal,? distopalatal,? facial,? gingival,? incisal,? incisocervical,? inferior,? labial,? lingual,? linguobuccal,? linguo-occlusal,? mandibular,? maxillary,? mesial,? mesioapical,? mesiobuccal,? mesiocervical,? mesiocoronal,? mesiodistal,? mesiofacial,? mesioincisal,? mesiogingival,? mesiolingual,? mesio-occlusal,? mesioclusal,? mesiocclusal,? mesiopalatal,? occlusal,? palatal,? posterior,? proximal,? superior,? vestibular (Category: en:Dentistry) [edit]
Derived terms
Related terms
- Armenia Inferior
- limit inferior
Translations
Noun
inferior (plural inferiors)
- A person of lower rank, stature, or ability to another.
- Antonym: superior
- (printing) An inferior letter, figure, or symbol.
Translations
References
- “inferior”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
- “inferior”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).
- inferior in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- inferior at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- fire iron, fireiron
Catalan
Etymology
From Latin ?nferior.
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central) IPA(key): /im.f?.?i?o/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /im.fe.?i?o?/
Adjective
inferior (masculine and feminine plural inferiors)
- inferior
- lower
Related terms
- inferioritat
Further reading
- “inferior” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “inferior” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “inferior” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “inferior” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
German
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin ?nferior (“lower, inferior”), the comparative of ?nferus (“low, nether, underground”).
Adjective
inferior (not comparable)
- subordinate, secondary
- (of people) inferior
- substandard, bad
Declension
Further reading
- “inferior” in Duden online
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /in?fe.ri.or/, [???f??i?r]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /in?fe.ri.or/, [in?f???i?r]
Adjective
?nferior (neuter ?nferius, positive ?nferus); third declension
- comparative degree of ?nferus, lower in situation or place:
- Subsequent, later, latter in time or succession.
- Inferior in quality, rank, or number.
Inflection
Third-declension comparative adjective.
Related terms
- infimus (superlative)
Descendants
References
- inferior in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- inferior in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- inferior in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
Occitan
Etymology
From Latin ?nferior.
Pronunciation
Adjective
inferior m (feminine singular inferiora, masculine plural inferiors, feminine plural inferioras)
- inferior
- lower
Portuguese
Etymology
From Latin inferior.
Pronunciation
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /?.f???jo?/
- Hyphenation: in?fe?ri?or
Adjective
inferior m or f (plural inferiores, comparable)
- inferior
- Antonym: superior
Romanian
Etymology
From French inférieur, from Latin inferior.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?in.fe.ri?or/
Adjective
inferior m or n (feminine singular inferioar?, masculine plural inferiori, feminine and neuter plural inferioare)
- inferior
Declension
Antonyms
- superior
Related terms
- inferioritate
Spanish
Etymology
From Latin inferior.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /infe??jo?/, [??.fe??jo?]
- Hyphenation: in?fe?rior
Adjective
inferior (plural inferiores)
- inferior (of lower quality)
- inferior (of lower rank)
- inferior (below)
Antonyms
- superior
Derived terms
Related terms
- inferioridad
Further reading
- “inferior” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
inferior From the web:
- what inferior means
- what inferiority complex mean
- what inferior goods
- what inferiority complex
- what's inferior turbinate
- what inferior good means
- what inferior and superior vena cava
- what's inferior technology
unpleasant
English
Etymology
From Middle English unplesaunt, equivalent to un- +? pleasant.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?n?plez?nt/
Adjective
unpleasant (comparative unpleasanter or more unpleasant, superlative unpleasantest or most unpleasant)
- Not pleasant.
- c. 1596, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act III, Scene 2,[1]
- O sweet Portia,
- Here are a few of the unpleasant’st words
- That ever blotted paper!
- 1722, Daniel Defoe, A Journal of the Plague Year, London: E. Nutt, p. 214,[2]
- It was indeed one admirable piece of Conduct in the said Magistrates, that the Streets were kept constantly clear, and free from all manner of frightful Objects, dead Bodies, or any such things as were indecent or unpleasant, unless where any Body fell down suddenly or died in the Streets […]
- 1811, Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility, Chapter 35,[3]
- The very circumstance, in its unpleasantest form, which they would each have been most anxious to avoid, had fallen on them.
- 1865, Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter 1,[4]
- […] she had read several nice little histories about children who had got burnt, and eaten up by wild beasts and other unpleasant things, all because they would not remember the simple rules their friends had taught them […]
- 1921, Walter de la Mare, Memoirs of a Midget, Chapter 37,[5]
- And I dipped into novels so like the unpleasanter parts of my own life that they might just as well have been autobiographies.
- c. 1596, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act III, Scene 2,[1]
Derived terms
- unpleasantness
Synonyms
- disagreeable
Translations
Anagrams
- pennatulas
unpleasant From the web:
- what unpleasant mean
- what does unpleasant mean
- what do unpleasant mean
- what does extremely unpleasant mean
you may also like
- inferior vs unpleasant
- boat vs aeroplane
- procure vs regain
- nerve vs presumptuousness
- unbending vs insensible
- mishap vs ill
- infamous vs diabolical
- spoil vs abuse
- prudence vs pains
- gust vs stir
- vitiated vs depraved
- mutter vs boom
- declare vs boom
- epic vs memoir
- warm vs vigorous
- shock vs struggle
- augmentation vs preferment
- roomy vs comprehensive
- wise vs philosophical
- connote vs involve