inferior
adjective
lower in station, rank, degree, or grade (often followed byto ).
inferiors
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pluralof inferior.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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It’s as though we, the attendees of prestige cinema, are peering down on our social inferiors, clucking condescendingly while we credit ourselves with advanced empathy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 8, 2026
"Instead in those years he sat at home watching his contemporaries and intellectual inferiors on Newsnight."
From BBC ● Feb. 8, 2025
Caliban gives these fellows the idea of killing Prospero and taking over the island, but they quickly reveal themselves to be his moral inferiors.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 28, 2023
They also yell at their inferiors — “You threw us under the bus!”— without remorse.
From New York Times ● Nov. 23, 2018
Most of his partners, his immediate superiors and inferiors down in the capital, were Chicanos, and this had never bothered him.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
