Word Meanings - INFERIORITY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The state of being inferior; a lower state or condition; as, inferiority of rank, of talents, of age, of worth. A deep sense of our own great inferiority. Boyle.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of INFERIORITY)

• Submission
• Yielding
• surrender
• inferiority
• dependence
• meekness
• resignation
• patience
• acquiescence

Related words: (words related to INFERIORITY)

• RESIGNATION
  1. The act of resigning or giving up, as a claim, possession, office, or the like; surrender; as, the resignation of a crown or comission. 2. The state of being resigned or submissive; quiet or patient submission; unresisting acquiescence; as,
• YIELDABLE
  Disposed to yield or comply. -- Yield"a*ble*ness, n. Bp. Hall.
• YIELDANCE
  1. The act of producing; yield; as, the yieldance of the earth. Bp. Hall. 2. The act of yielding; concession. South.
• YIELDING
  Inclined to give way, or comply; flexible; compliant; accommodating; as, a yielding temper. Yielding and paying , the initial words of that clause in leases in which the rent to be paid by the lessee is mentioned and reserved. Burrill. Syn. --
• INFERIORITY
  The state of being inferior; a lower state or condition; as, inferiority of rank, of talents, of age, of worth. A deep sense of our own great inferiority. Boyle.
• YIELDER
  One who yields. Shak.
• SURRENDEROR
  One who makes a surrender, as of an estate. Bouvier.
• SUBMISSION
  An agreement by which parties engage to submit any matter of controversy between them to the decision of arbitrators. Wharton (Law Dict.). Bouvier. (more info) 1. The act of submitting; the act of yielding to power or authority; surrender of the
• YIELDLESS
  Without yielding; unyielding.
• MEEKNESS
  The quality or state of being meek.
• SURRENDERER
  One who surrenders.
• YIELD
  pay, give, restore, make an offering; akin to OFries. jelda, OS. geldan, D. gelden to cost, to be worth, G. gelten, OHG. geltan to pay, restore, make an offering, be worth, Icel. gjalda to pay, give up, Dan. gielde to be worth, Sw. gälla to be
• PATIENCE
  A kind of dock , less common in America than in Europe; monk's rhubarb. (more info) 1. The state or quality of being patient; the power of suffering with fortitude; uncomplaining endurance of evils or wrongs, as toil, pain, poverty,
• SURRENDER
  To yield; to render or deliver up; to give up; as, a principal surrendered by his bail, a fugitive from justice by a foreign state, or a particular estate by the tenant thereof to him in remainder or reversion. (more info) 1. To yield to the power
• SURRENDEREE
  The person to whom a surrender is made. Mozley & W.
• DEPENDENCE
  1. The act or state of depending; state of being dependent; a hanging down or from; suspension from a support. 2. The state of being influenced and determined by something; subjection . The cause of effects, and the dependence of one thing upon
• ACQUIESCENCE
  1. A silent or passive assent or submission, or a submission with apparent content; -- distinguished from avowed consent on the one hand, and on the other, from opposition or open discontent; quiet satisfaction. Submission to an injury by the party
• BY-DEPENDENCE
  An appendage; that which depends on something else, or is distinct from the main dependence; an accessory. Shak.
• UNPATIENCE
  Impatience.
• NONSUBMISSION
  Want of submission; failure or refusal to submit.
• INDEPENDENCE
  1. The state or quality of being independent; freedom from dependence; exemption from reliance on, or control by, others; self- subsistence or maintenance; direction of one's own affairs without interference. Let fortune do her worst, . . . as
• INTERDEPENDENCE
  Mutual dependence. "The interdependence of virtue and knowledge." M. Arnold.
• NONACQUIESCENCE
  Refusal of acquiescence; failure to yield or comply.
• INSUBMISSION
  Want of submission; disobedience; noncompliance.