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most inferior

ADJECTIVE

less in rank, importance

Synonyms

STRONGEST

lesser secondary

STRONG

bottom junior less lower menial minor minus peon second subordinate subsidiary

WEAK

back seat bottom-rung entry-level nether second-banana second-fiddle second-string smaller subjacent under underneath

Antonyms

STRONGEST

superior

STRONG

chief important major necessary

WEAK

best better extraordinary first-class first-rate foremost

ADJECTIVE

poor, second-rate

Synonyms

STRONGEST

indifferent lousy mediocre substandard

STRONG

average bad base common fair good-for-nothing hack imperfect junk lemon mean middling ordinary worse

WEAK

déclassé low-grade low-rent paltry poorer sad second-class sorry tawdry two-bit wretched

Antonyms

STRONG

abnormal excellent exceptional extraordinary extreme good honest noble uncommon unusual

WEAK

best better first-class first-rate foremost superior

Example Sentences

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The inferior angle is the most inferior portion of the scapula, and is particularly important because it serves as the attachment point for several powerful muscles involved in shoulder and upper limb movements.

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

She mimicked Taft behind his back, called McKinley and his wife "a pair of usurping cuckoos," and found Harding "not the worst President-just the most inferior man."

From Time Magazine Archive

The dramatic is the most inferior of all arts.

From Our Stage and Its Critics By "E.F.S." of "The Westminster Gazette" by Spence, Edward Fordham

But so great is the difficulty of proof that many are compelled to attach the most inferior weight to analogy as a method of reasoning.

From Natural Law in the Spiritual World by Drummond, Henry

He was commanded to beg the pardon of all the aggrieved parties, even from the most inferior lay brethren; and he did this, at the cost of many rebuffs.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898—Volume 39 of 55 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of The Catholic Missions, As Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century, Volume XXXIX: 1683-1690 by Blair, Emma Helen