Contents
-AUTHOR INDEX -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD
Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922.
Class I. Words Expressing Abstract Relations
Section III. Quantity
2. Comparative Quantity
Quantity by Comparison with a Similar Object
34. Inferiority.
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NOUN: | INFERIORITY, minority, subordinacy [obs.], subordinance [obs.]; shortcoming, deficiency; minimum; smallness [See Smallness]; imperfection; subjacency [rare]; lower quality, lower worth; meanness, poorness, baseness, shabbiness. [PERSONAL INFERIORITY] commonalty [See Commonalty]; juniority, subordinacy; subaltern, sub [colloq.].
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VERB: | BE INFERIOR &c. adj.; fall short of, come short of; not pass, not come up to; want. become smaller, render smaller &c. (decrease), 36, (contract) [See Contraction]; hide its diminished head, retire into the shade, yield the palm, play second fiddle, take a back seat [colloq.], kick the beam.
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ADJECTIVE: | INFERIOR, deterior [rare], smaller; small [See Smallness]; minor, less, lesser, deficient, minus, lower, subordinate, secondary, junior, humble; second-rate (imperfect) [See Imperfection]; sub-, subaltern. LEAST, smallest &c. (see little, small [See Littleness]); lowest. DIMINISHED (decreased) [See Nonincrease, Decrease]; reduced (contracted) [See Contraction]; unimportant [See Unimportance].
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ADVERB: | LESS; under the mark, below the mark, under par, below par; at the bottom of the scale, at a low ebb, at a disadvantage; short of, under.
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QUOTATIONS: | - Weighed in the balance and found wanting.
- Not fit to hold a candle to.
- Thrown into the shade.
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