Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: inferiority
IPA transcription: [,ɪnfɪɹi'ɔɹɪt,i]
Pronunciations of inferiority
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noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: inferiority, lower_status, lower_rank
    Meaning: the state of being inferior
  • Synonyms: inferiority, low_quality
    Meaning: an inferior quality
Usage examples
  • How can Emma imagine she has any thing to learn herself, while Harriet is presenting such a delightful inferiority?
  • And our coroner, out in Scott County, is eminently fixable, if you go about it right; a pitiful little nonentity with a tremendous inferiority complex."
  • Superiority and inferiority, dominion and subjection are bound to a natural envy and contest, and must of necessity perpetually intrench upon one another.
  • It benefited England more than all other nations put together, because it revealed to her people their inferiority in many branches both of workmanship and design.
  • The early Illinoisans were perplexed with a secret and singular sense of inferiority to even so new and raw a community as Missouri, because of its possession of slavery.
  • The jeweller ventured to suggest the inferiority of Parisian workmanship as compared with that of a first-rate English establishment; but Mr. Dunbar did not condescend to pay any attention to the young man's remonstrance.
0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Julius Caesar, License CC BY-SA 4.0
1. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Major depressive disorder, License CC BY-SA 4.0