What are the opposite words for superior?
The antonyms for the word "superior" are inferior, lesser, lower, mediocre, second-rate, and subpar. These words depict a lack of superiority or excellence in comparison to others. The word inferior is used to describe something that is of lower quality or value. Lesser refers to something that is lower in rank or importance. Lower suggests something that is of significantly less value or quality. Mediocre implies something that is average or unremarkable. Second-rate refers to something that is of poorer quality than others. Subpar is used to describe something that is below average or fails to meet expectations. These words represent the opposite of superior and suggest a lower quality of performance, value or standard.
- above
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inferior
- beneath,
- juniors,
- menials,
- junior,
- second-string,
- low-rent,
- back seat,
- entry-level,
- bottom rung,
- bottom-rung,
- bottomrung,
- entry level,
- entrylevel,
- good for nothing,
- in different,
- in-different,
- junkest,
- lowrent,
- more bottom rung,
- more bottom-rung,
- more bottomrung,
- more entry level,
- more entry-level,
- more entrylevel,
- more good for nothing,
- more low-rent,
- more lowrent,
- more nether,
- more second banana,
- more second fiddle,
- more second string,
- more second-banana,
- more second-fiddle,
- more second-string,
- more secondbanana,
- more secondfiddle,
- more secondstring,
- more under,
- more underneath,
- most bottom rung,
- most bottom-rung,
- most bottomrung,
- most entry level,
- most entry-level,
- most entrylevel,
- most good for nothing,
- most good-for-nothing,
- most inferior,
- most junior,
- most lemon,
- most low rent,
- most low-rent,
- most lowrent,
- most nether,
- most second banana,
- most second fiddle,
- most second string,
- most second-banana,
- most second-fiddle,
- most second-string,
- most secondbanana,
- most secondfiddle,
- most secondstring,
- most underneath,
- peoner,
- peonest,
- second-banana,
- second-fiddle,
- secondbanana,
- secondfiddle,
- secondstring.
- beneath
- superior
-
assistant
- aide,
- helper,
- lieutenant.
-
subordinate
- underling,
- dependents,
- de pendents,
- de-pendents,
- poor relation,
- poor relations,
- sub ordinates,
- sub-ordinates,
- third string,
- third strings,
- Subalternate,
- more subalternate,
- more underaverage,
- most satellite,
- most subalternate,
- most underaverage,
- sub alternate,
- sub ordinate,
- sub-alternate,
- sub-ordinate,
- subber,
- un equal,
- un-equal,
- under average,
- under-average,
- underaverage.
- follower
- accessory
- henchman
- lieutenant
- aide
- peer
- subaltern
- underling
-
helper
- fellow worker,
- paraprofessional,
- reliever,
- succorer,
- temporary worker,
- Temps,
- co adjutant,
- co adjutants,
- co-adjutant,
- co-adjutants,
- fellow workers,
- para professionals,
- para-professional,
- paraprofessionals,
- right hand man woman,
- right hand manwoman,
- right hand manwomen,
- right hand people,
- right hand person,
- right hand persons,
- right-hand man-woman,
- right-hand manwoman,
- right-hand manwomen,
- right-hand people,
- right-hand person,
- right-hand persons,
- righthand manwoman,
- righthand manwomen,
- righthand people,
- righthand persons,
- temporary workers.
-
person who is another's equal
- peer.
- secondary person
- person higher or highest in rank
- beastly
- savage; vulgar
-
humble
- proletarian,
- supplicatory,
- trivial,
- unambitious,
- unassuming,
- unpretentious,
- Low-born,
- low-ranking,
- de mure,
- de-mure,
- in glorious,
- in significant,
- in-glorious,
- in-significant,
- low born,
- low ranking,
- lowranking,
- more low born,
- more low ranking,
- more low-born,
- more low-ranking,
- more lowborn,
- more lowranking,
- more proletarian,
- more supplicatory,
- more unambitious,
- most low born,
- most low ranking,
- most low-born,
- most low-ranking,
- most lowborn,
- most lowranking,
- most proletarian,
- most supplicatory,
- most unambitious,
- re served,
- re tiring,
- re-served,
- re-tiring,
- self conscious,
- self effacing,
- selfconscious,
- selfeffacing,
- soft spoken,
- softspoken,
- sub missive,
- un ambitious,
- un assuming,
- un couth,
- un fit,
- un important,
- un obtrusive,
- un ostentatious,
- un pretentious,
- un refined,
- un-ambitious,
- un-assuming,
- un-couth,
- un-fit,
- un-important,
- un-obtrusive,
- un-ostentatious,
- un-pretentious,
- un-refined,
- under privileged,
- under-privileged,
- with drawn,
- with-drawn.
-
bad
- bottom out,
- the pits,
- beastlier,
- cruddy,
- beastliest,
- not good,
- cruddier,
- cruddiest,
- diddlier,
- diddliest,
- dis satisfactory,
- dis-satisfactory,
- godawful,
- grodier,
- grody,
- in adequate,
- in correct,
- in-adequate,
- junkier,
- junkiest,
- more downer,
- more garbage,
- most downer,
- most garbage,
- most godawful,
- pitser,
- pitsest,
- sub standard,
- sub-standard,
- un acceptable,
- un satisfactory,
- un-acceptable,
- un-satisfactory.
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cheap
- catchpenny,
- junky,
- mingy,
- rubbishy,
- scurvy,
- shoddy,
- tawdry,
- Dudder,
- cut rate,
- cut price,
- marked down,
- on sale,
- bargain-basement,
- cheapo,
- glitzy,
- rinky-dink,
- scroungy,
- at a bargain,
- at bargain,
- bargain basement,
- bargain counter,
- bargain-counter,
- bargainbasement,
- bargaincounter,
- bought for a song,
- bought for song,
- buyest,
- cost next nothing,
- cost next to nothing,
- cut-price,
- cut-rate,
- cutprice,
- cutrate,
- dime dozen,
- dis honest,
- dis-honest,
- duddest,
- easy on pocketbook,
- easy on the pocketbook,
- easy pocketbook,
- easy the pocketbook,
- glitzier,
- glitziest,
- half-priced,
- low priced,
- low tariff,
- lowcost,
- lowpriced,
- mingier,
- mingiest,
- more bargain,
- more bargain basement,
- more bargain counter,
- more bargain-basement,
- more bargain-counter,
- more bargainbasement,
- more bargaincounter,
- more budget,
- more catchpenny,
- more cheapo,
- more cut price,
- more cut rate,
- more cut-price,
- more cut-rate,
- more cutprice,
- more depreciated,
- more half priced,
- more half-priced,
- more halfpriced,
- more lowered,
- more rinky dink,
- more rinky-dink,
- more rinkydink,
- more rubbishy,
- more slashed,
- more tight wad,
- more tight-wad,
- more tightwad,
- more trumpery,
- more uncostly,
- more undear,
- most bargain,
- most bargain basement,
- most bargain counter,
- most bargain-basement,
- most bargain-counter,
- most bargainbasement,
- most bargaincounter,
- most budget,
- most catchpenny,
- most cheapo,
- most cut price,
- most cut rate,
- most cut-price,
- most cutprice,
- most cutrate,
- most depreciated,
- most half priced,
- most halfpriced,
- most lowered,
- most rinky dink,
- most rinky-dink,
- most rinkydink,
- most rubbishy,
- most slashed,
- most tight wad,
- most tight-wad,
- most tightwad,
- most trumpery,
- most uncostly,
- most utility,
- no bargain,
- no good,
- pennypinching,
- popularly priced,
- real buy,
- rinky dink,
- rinkydink,
- saler,
- salest,
- scroungier,
- scroungiest,
- scurvier,
- scurviest,
- small time,
- stealest,
- tight-wad,
- twobit,
- un costly,
- un dear,
- un-costly,
- uncostly,
- undear,
- worth money,
- worth the money.
- mediocre
- small
- unimportant
-
poor
- moneyless,
- niggardly,
- subnormal,
- Beggared,
- Fortuneless,
- Commiserable,
- poorer,
- unprosperous,
- in want,
- in need,
- behind eight ball,
- dirt poor,
- down and out,
- empty handed,
- emptyhanded,
- flat broke,
- ill fated,
- illfated,
- in complete,
- in disposed,
- in fertile,
- in firm,
- in firmer,
- in firmest,
- in solvent,
- in-complete,
- in-disposed,
- in-fertile,
- in-firmer,
- in-firmest,
- in-solvent,
- in-sufficient,
- more beggared,
- more commiserable,
- more dwarfed,
- more empty handed,
- more emptyhanded,
- more fortuneless,
- more moneyless,
- more niggardly,
- more pauperized,
- more pinched,
- more subnormal,
- more unprosperous,
- most beggared,
- most commiserable,
- most dwarfed,
- most empty handed,
- most empty-handed,
- most emptyhanded,
- most fortuneless,
- most moneyless,
- most niggardly,
- most pauperized,
- most pinched,
- most subnormal,
- most unprosperous,
- poverty stricken,
- povertystricken,
- stone broke,
- sub normal,
- sub-normal,
- subpar,
- truly needy,
- un fruitful,
- un luckier,
- un luckiest,
- un lucky,
- un productive,
- un prosperous,
- un-fruitful,
- un-luckier,
- un-lucky,
- un-productive.
-
less
- not as great,
- de pressed,
- de-pressed,
- more beneath,
- more declined,
- more diminished,
- more excepting,
- more fewer,
- more shortened,
- more subtracting,
- more without,
- most beneath,
- most declined,
- most diminished,
- most excepting,
- most fewer,
- most shortened,
- most subtracting,
- most without,
- un substantial,
- un-substantial.
- side
-
low
- ill-bred,
- undignified,
- crumbiest,
- crumby,
- illbred,
- crumbier,
- ill bred,
- in elegant,
- in expensive,
- in-elegant,
- in-expensive,
- more cut,
- more ill bred,
- more ill-bred,
- more illbred,
- more undignified,
- most cut,
- most ill bred,
- most ill-bred,
- most illbred,
- most undignified,
- off color,
- offcolor,
- un becoming,
- un dignified,
- un-becoming.
- mean
- lower
- lowly
- pitiful
- auxiliary
- base
- cavalier
- chief
-
common
- characterless,
- communistic,
- conjunct,
- impure,
- in common,
- middling,
- prosy,
- socialistic,
- unvaried,
- workaday,
- Intermutual,
- Commutual,
- prosier,
- prosiest,
- wornout,
- co incident,
- co-incident,
- comformable,
- hackest,
- in formal,
- in-formal,
- inter mutual,
- inter-mutual,
- low grade,
- lowgrade,
- more characterless,
- more communistic,
- more commutual,
- more correspondent,
- more socialistic,
- most characterless,
- most communistic,
- most community,
- most commutual,
- most conjunct,
- most correspondent,
- most intermutual,
- most socialistic,
- most unvaried,
- most workaday,
- pre vailing,
- re gular,
- re-gular,
- run of the mill,
- stereo typed,
- un distinguished,
- un varied,
- un-distinguished,
- un-varied,
- uni versal,
- uni-versal,
- well known,
- wellknown.
- derivative
- lousy
- mere
- minor
- no-account
-
nondescript
- unclassifiable,
- unclassified,
- uninspiring,
- unmemorable,
- in describable,
- in determinate,
- in-describable,
- more garden,
- more unclassifiable,
- more unclassified,
- more uninspiring,
- more unmemorable,
- most garden,
- most unclassifiable,
- most unclassified,
- most uninspiring,
- most unmemorable,
- un classifiable,
- un classified,
- un inspiring,
- un interesting,
- un memorable,
- un-classifiable,
- un-classified,
- un-inspiring,
- un-interesting,
- un-memorable.
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petty
- nickel-and-dime,
- penny ante,
- scratcher,
- shoestring,
- in consequent,
- in essential,
- in-consequent,
- in-essential,
- more nickel and dime,
- more peanut,
- more penny ante,
- more pennyante,
- more pettifogging,
- more shoestring,
- most nickel and dime,
- most nickel-and-dime,
- most peanut,
- most penny ante,
- most penny-ante,
- most pennyante,
- most pettifogging,
- most shoestring,
- narrow minded,
- nickel and dime,
- penny-ante,
- pennyante,
- scratchest,
- small minded,
- smallminded.
- second
-
secondary
- second hand,
- Derivate,
- Substract,
- de rived,
- de-rived,
- second-hand,
- in direct,
- in-direct,
- more accessory,
- more derivate,
- more resultant,
- more resulting,
- more second hand,
- more second-hand,
- more substract,
- most backup,
- most derivate,
- most resultant,
- most resulting,
- most second hand,
- most second-hand,
- most substract,
- re lief,
- re liefer,
- re liefest,
- re-lief,
- re-liefer,
- re-liefest,
- reliefer,
- reliefest.
- sloppy
- so-so
- supplementary
- admirable
- arrogant
- champion
- crummy
- dependent
- inexpensive
-
lesser
- small fry,
- a notch under,
- busher,
- bushest,
- bushleague,
- less important,
- minorleague,
- more small fry,
- more small-fry,
- more smallfry,
- more third string,
- more third-string,
- more thirdstring,
- most small fry,
- most small-fry,
- most smallfry,
- most third string,
- most third-string,
- most thirdstring,
- small-fry,
- smallfry,
- third-string,
- thirdstring,
- under sized,
- under-sized.
- menial
- messy
- middling
- ordinary
- passable
-
rotten
- bribable,
- feculent,
- overripe,
- purulent,
- putrescent,
- putrified,
- over-ripe,
- badsmelling,
- bad smelling,
- bad-smelling,
- bummest,
- de composed,
- de composing,
- de filed,
- de generate,
- de-composed,
- de-composing,
- de-filed,
- de-generate,
- dis appointing,
- dis eased,
- dis integrated,
- dis integrating,
- dis loyal,
- dis pleasing,
- dis-appointing,
- dis-eased,
- dis-integrated,
- dis-integrating,
- dis-loyal,
- dis-pleasing,
- more bad smelling,
- more bad-smelling,
- more badsmelling,
- more bruised,
- more contaminated,
- more corroded,
- more crumbled,
- more decomposing,
- more disintegrating,
- more fecal,
- more festering,
- more infected,
- more moldering,
- more overripe,
- more perished,
- more polluted,
- more purulent,
- more pustular,
- more putrescent,
- more putrified,
- more smelling,
- more sullied,
- more vitiated,
- most bad smelling,
- most bad-smelling,
- most badsmelling,
- most bribable,
- most bruised,
- most corroded,
- most crumbled,
- most decomposed,
- most dirtied,
- most disintegrated,
- most disintegrating,
- most fecal,
- most feculent,
- most festering,
- most infected,
- most moldering,
- most overripe,
- most perished,
- most polluted,
- most pustular,
- most putrified,
- most smelling,
- most sullied,
- most vitiated,
- over ripe,
- punker,
- punkest,
- un cleaner,
- un cleanest,
- un fortunate,
- un happier,
- un happiest,
- un happy,
- un sound,
- un sounder,
- un-cleaner,
- un-cleanest,
- un-fortunate,
- un-happy,
- un-sound,
- un-sounder,
- un-soundest,
- un-trustworthy.
- second-rate
- shoddy
- worthless
- better
- all
- subject
-
poor quality
- bad.
-
vulgar, low
- base.
- second-rate/second-class
- average, ordinary
- weak, helpless
- borrowed, transmitted from source
- meek, unassuming
- less in rank, importance
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smaller, inferior
- less.
- inferior, secondary
- very bad
-
reduced; mediocre
- low.
- inferior, plain
-
poor; of or in inferior circumstances
- mean.
- average, commonplace
-
nothing more; absolute
- mere.
- insignificant, small
- undistinguished, commonplace
- average; not distinctive
- acceptable, admissible
- trivial, insignificant
- in bad shape; poor
-
lacking sufficient money
- poor.
- decayed, decaying
- subordinate; less important
-
minor; flanking
- side.
- in an acceptable manner
- at the mercy of; answerable
- lesser, supplementary
- better, greater, higher; excellent
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Other relevant words
- cheap-jack,
- cipher,
- dwarf,
- employee,
- hand,
- jobholder,
- morsel,
- nobody,
- nonentity,
- retainer,
- shrimp,
- subscript,
- twerp,
- underling,
- utility,
- whippersnapper,
- worker,
- zero,
- zilch,
- Insignificancy,
- snippersnapper,
- acquiescent,
- affected,
- apologetic,
- average,
- bashful,
- compliant,
- cowering,
- cringing,
- deferential,
- diffident,
- homely,
- ingratiating,
- insignificant,
- introverted,
- mousy,
- obscure,
- overmodest,
- passive,
- quiet,
- reserved,
- resigned,
- retiring,
- sheepish,
- shrinking,
- shy,
- subdued,
- submissive,
- timid,
- unaggressive,
- unassertive,
- unimportant,
- unobtrusive,
- unsung,
- vile,
- yielding,
- unpretending,
- uncelebrated.
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Other antonyms
- common,
- demure,
- foul,
- ill-bred,
- indifferent,
- lowly,
- mean,
- mediocre,
- middling,
- modest,
- monstrous,
- passable,
- side,
- so-so,
- sycophantic,
- tawdry,
- unassuming,
- uninspiring,
- unsatisfactory.
Antonym of the day
most elbow-to-elbow
- Antonyms:
- deserted, empty, imprecise.
