Inferiority
Nouns
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inferiority, minority, subordinacy
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shortcoming, deficiency
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minimum
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smallness etc. Smallness
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imperfection
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lower quality, lower worth. [personal inferiority] commonalty etc. Commonalty.
Verbs
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be inferior etc. adj.
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fall short of, come short of
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not pass, not come up to
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want. become smaller, render smaller etc. (decrease) Nonincrease, Decrease, (contract) Contraction
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hide its diminished head, retire into the shade, yield the palm, play second fiddle, be upstaged, take a back seat.
Adjectives
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inferior, smaller
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small etc. Smallness
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minor, less, lesser, deficient, minus, lower, subordinate, secondary
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secondrate etc. (imperfect) Imperfection
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sub, subaltern
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thrown into the shade
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weighed in the balance and found wanting
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not fit to hold a candle to, can't hold a candle to. least, smallest etc. (little) (small) etc. Littleness
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lowest. diminished etc. (decreased) Nonincrease, Decrease
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reduced etc. (contracted) Contraction
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unimportant etc. Unimportance.
Adverbs
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less
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under the mark, below the mark, below par
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at the bottom of the scale, at a low ebb, at a disadvantage
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short of, under.