Inferior vs Irascible - What's the difference?

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Inferior is a related term of irascible.

As adjectives the difference between inferior and irascible

is that inferior is of lower quality while irascible is easily provoked to outbursts of anger; irritable.

As a noun inferior

is a person of lower stature to another.

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

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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irascible

English

Adjective

(en adjective)

Easily provoked to outbursts of anger; irritable.

* 1809 , , Knickerbocker's History of New York , ch. 16:

. . . the surly and irascible passions which, like belligerent powers, lie encamped around the heart.

* 1863 , , Hospital Sketches , ch. 1:

I am naturally irascible , and if I could have shaken this negative gentleman vigorously, the relief would have been immense.

* 1921 , , Four Years , ch. 10:

. . . a never idle man of great physical strength and extremely irascible —did he not fling a badly baked plum pudding through the window upon Xmas Day?

* 2004 Feb. 29, Daniel Kadlec, " Why He's Meanspan," Time :

Alan Greenspan was on an irascible roll last week, first dissing everyone who holds a fixed-rate mortgage — suckers! — and later picking on folks who collect Social Security: Get back to work, Grandma.

Synonyms

* cantankerous, choleric, cranky, ill-tempered, hot-tempered

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