Diminutive vs Inferior - What's the difference?
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Diminutive is a related term of inferior. As adjectives the difference between diminutive and inferior is that diminutive is very small while inferior is of lower quality. As nouns the difference between diminutive and inferior is that diminutive is (grammar) a word form expressing smallness, youth, unimportance, or endearment while inferior is a person of lower stature to another.
diminutive English
Alternative forms
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Adjective
( en adjective)
Very small.
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Serving to diminish.
* Shaftesbury
- diminutive of liberty
(grammar) Of or pertaining to, or creating a word form expressing smallness, youth, unimportance, or endearment.
Synonyms
* (very small) lilliputian, tiny
Antonyms
* (very small) huge, gigantic
* augmentative
Noun
( wikipedia diminutive)
( en noun)
(grammar) A word form expressing smallness, youth, unimportance, or endearment.
- Booklet, the diminutive of book, means ‘small book’ .
Synonyms
* nomen deminutivum
Antonyms
* augmentative
Related terms
* diminish
* dimwit
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inferior English
Alternative forms
* inferiour (obsolete)
Adjective
( en adjective)
of lower quality
- Anna had always felt inferior to her brother due to poor school grades.
* Dryden
- Whether they are equal or inferior to my other poems, an author is the most improper judge.
of lower rank
- an inferior officer
located below
# (typography) Printed in subscript.
- an inferior figure or letter
(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.
- the inferior''' or interior planets; an '''inferior conjunction of Mercury or Venus
(astronomy) Below the horizon.
- 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 also
Antonyms
* superior
Coordinate terms
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Related terms
* inferiority
Noun
( en noun)
a person of lower stature to another
- As you are my inferior , I can tell you to do anything I want.
Antonyms
* superior
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