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# inferiority

«inferiority» in Mova's school dictionary: **the state of being lower in rank, quality or skill than…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun

### meaning for a pupil

The inferiority of something is the state of being lower in rank, quality or skill than others, or feeling less good than them. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inferiority/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in a tale, one group treated as lower or weaker than another

### examples

- He felt a sense of inferiority beside the older boys. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inferiority/#x1)
- The story shows the inferiority of the wicked brothers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inferiority/#x2)
- The team lost because of their inferiority in speed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inferiority/#x3)
- Some people wrongly think others have an inferiority. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inferiority/#x4)

### note

nothing for maths; in a comparison it means a lower or smaller amount, but it does not give a count

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «inferiority» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inferiority/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.