Junior vs Inferior - What's the difference?
junior | inferior |
(not comparable, often, preceded by a possessive adjective or a possessive form of a noun) Younger.
* 1939 , "Uncle Fred in the Springtime":
(not comparable) Of or pertaining to a third academic year in a four-year high school (eleventh grade) or university.
(comparable) Low in rank; having a subordinate role, job, or situation.
Belonging to a younger person, or an earlier time of life.
* Sir Thomas Browne
A younger person.
* (Angela Brazil)
A third-year student at a high school or university.
A name suffix used after a son's name when his father has the same name. Abbreviation:
of lower quality
* Dryden
of lower rank
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# (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
As nouns the difference between junior and inferior
is that junior is junior (especially a junior sportsman) while inferior is a person of lower stature to another.As an adjective inferior is
of lower quality.junior
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Alternative forms
* juniour (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- The last man I met who was at school with me, though some years my junior, had a long white beard and no teeth.
- Our first studies and junior endeavours.
Noun
(en noun)- four years his junior
- Miss Mitchell would certainly be most relieved to have a monitress who was capable of organising the juniors at games.
Antonyms
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* ----inferior
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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.