2ADJ-GRADED (地位、能力等)低等的,低于…的;下级的 If one person is regarded as inferior to another, they are regarded as less important because they have less status or ability. (地位、能力等)低等的,低于…的;下级的
He preferred the company of those who were intellectually inferior to himself. [+ to]
他喜欢与那些智力水平不如他的人共处。
...the inferior status of women in pre-revolutionary Russia.