Inept vs Inferior - What's the difference?
inept | inferior | Related terms |
Not able to do something; not proficient; displaying incompetence
Unfit; unsuitable
of lower quality
* Dryden
of lower rank
located below
# (typography) Printed in subscript.
(botany) Situated below some other organ; said of a calyx when free from the ovary, and therefore below it, or of an ovary with an adherent and therefore inferior calyx.
(botany) On the side of a flower which is next to the bract; anterior.
(astronomy) Nearer to the Sun than the Earth is.
(astronomy) Below the horizon.
a person of lower stature to another
Inept is a related term of inferior.
As adjectives the difference between inept and inferior
is that inept is not able to do something; not proficient; displaying incompetence while inferior is of lower quality.As a noun inferior is
a person of lower stature to another.inept
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Antonyms
* adept * skillfulinferior
English
Alternative forms
* inferiour (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- Anna had always felt inferior to her brother due to poor school grades.
- Whether they are equal or inferior to my other poems, an author is the most improper judge.
- an inferior officer
- an inferior figure or letter
- the inferior''' or interior planets; an '''inferior conjunction of Mercury or Venus
- the inferior part of a meridian
Usage notes
(term) and (superior) are generally followed by (to); (than) is seen sometimes, but is viewed as wrong.Synonyms
* See alsoAntonyms
* superiorCoordinate terms
*Noun
(en noun)- As you are my inferior , I can tell you to do anything I want.