Adjective
1. of or characteristic of low rank or importance
2. of low or inferior quality
3. inferior in rank or status;
"the junior faculty""a lowly corporal""petty officialdom""a subordinate functionary"4. written or printed below and to one side of another character
5. having an orbit between the sun and the Earth's orbit;
"Mercury and Venus are inferior planets"6. lower than a given reference point;
"inferior alveolar artery"7. falling short of some prescribed norm;
"substandard housing"