INFERIOR - 68 Synonyms and Antonyms - Cambridge English

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inferior

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OF BAD QUALITY

The copies are of inferior quality.

Synonyms and examples

bad
The food wasn’t as bad as I’d expected.
poor
Their efforts produced extremely poor results.
low/poor/bad quality
Their sausages are made with low-quality meat.
mediocre
disapproving
The striker has been dropped after a mediocre performance.
cheap
disapproving
The whole place reeked of cheap perfume.
cheap and nasty
UK
The supermarkets have been flooded with cheap and nasty wine.

Antonym and example

good
The pub has good food.

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Bad weather, conditions, situations, etc. are unpleasant and cause difficulties or harm. You can describe a person who behaves in a way that is morally wrong, or a morally wrong action, as a bad person, action, etc. Something that is of bad quality is of a low or unacceptable standard. If someone is bad at something, they lack skill in that doing something.
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These are words and phrases related to inferior. Click on any word or phrase to go to its thesaurus page. Or, go to the definition of inferior.
Synonyms for inferior from Random House Roget's College Thesaurus, Revised and Updated Edition © 2000 Random House, Inc.

to make it difficult for someone to achieve something they had planned to do

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