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Wiktionary0.0 / 0 votes

  1. inferioritynoun

    Antonyms:
    superiority

  2. inferioritynoun

    Antonyms:
    superiority

  3. inferioritynoun

    Antonyms:
    superiority

  4. inferioritynoun

    Antonyms:
    superiority

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms0.0 / 0 votes

  1. inferiority

    Synonyms:
    subordination, minority, poverty, mediocrity, subjection, servitude, depression

    Antonyms:
    superiority, majority, excellence, eminence, independence, mastery, exaltation, elevation

Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  1. inferiority, lower status, lower ranknoun

    the state of being inferior

    Synonyms:
    low quality, unfavorable position, lower rank, lower status

    Antonyms:
    superiority, high quality

  2. inferiority, low qualitynoun

    an inferior quality

    Synonyms:
    low quality, unfavorable position, lower rank, lower status

    Antonyms:
    high quality, superiority

  3. inferiority, unfavorable positionnoun

    the quality of being a competitive disadvantage

    Synonyms:
    low quality, unfavorable position, lower rank, lower status

    Antonyms:
    high quality, superiority

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Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. inferioritynoun

    Synonyms:
    lower state or condition

  2. inferioritynoun

    Synonyms:
    subordination

  3. inferioritynoun

    Synonyms:
    mediocrity, poor quality

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. inferioritynoun

    Synonyms:
    subordinacy, mediocrity, deficiency

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Words popularity by usage frequency

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#3761poverty
#4452depression
#4956minority
#41855mediocrity
#45272servitude
#47817subordination
#52274inferiority
#59900subjection

How to use inferiority in a sentence?

  1. Pope Francis:

    It is chilling to think of determined efforts to instill a sense of inferiority, to rob people of their cultural identity, to sever their roots, and to consider all the personal and social effects that this continues to entail: unresolved traumas that have become inter-generational traumas.

  2. Lord Chesterfield:

    Most people enjoy the inferiority of their friends.

  3. Alfred Adler:

    The feeling of inferiority rules the mental life and can be clearly recognized in the sense of incompleteness and unfulfillment, and in the uninterrupted struggle both of individuals and humanity.

  4. Mark Twain:

    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.

  5. Donald Trump:

    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.


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