Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922. Class I. Words Expressing Abstract Relations Section III. Quantity 2. Comparative Quantity Quantity by Comparison with a Similar Object 34. Inferiority.
NOUN: INFERIORITY, minority, subordinacy [obs. ], subordinance [obs. ]; shortcoming, deficiency; minimum; smallness [See Smallness ]; imperfection; subjacency [rare ]; lower quality, lower worth; meanness, poorness, baseness, shabbiness.ERSONAL INFERIORITY ] commonalty [See Commonalty ]; juniority, subordinacy; subaltern, sub [colloq. ]. VERB: BE INFERIOR &c. adj.; fall short of, come short of; not pass, not come up to; want.decrease ), 36, (contract ) [See Contraction ]; hide its diminished head, retire into the shade, yield the palm, play second fiddle, take a back seat [colloq. ], kick the beam. ADJECTIVE: INFERIOR, deterior [rare ], smaller; small [See Smallness ]; minor, less, lesser, deficient, minus, lower, subordinate, secondary, junior, humble; second-rate (imperfect ) [See Imperfection ]; sub-, subaltern.LEAST, smallest &c. (see little, small [See Littleness ]); lowest.DIMINISHED (decreased ) [See Nonincrease, Decrease ]; reduced (contracted ) [See Contraction ]; unimportant [See Unimportance ]. ADVERB: LESS; under the mark, below the mark, under par, below par; at the bottom of the scale, at a low ebb, at a disadvantage; short of, under. QUOTATIONS: Weighed in the balance and found wanting.
Not fit to hold a candle to.
Thrown into the shade.
