If one person is regarded as inferior to another, they are regarded as less important because they have less status or ability. He preferred the company of those who were intellectually inferior to himself. superior Inferior is also a noun. A gentleman should always be civil, even to his inferiors. + inferiority in·fe·ri·or·ity I found it difficult to shake off a sense of social inferiority. someone who has a lower position or rank than you in an organization superior
one of lesser rank or station or quality of or characteristic of low rank or importance of low or inferior quality having an orbit between the sun and the Earth's orbit; "Mercury and Venus are inferior planets"