deficiency; minimum; smallness &c 32; imperfection; lower quality,
lower worth.
[personal inferiority] commonalty &c 876.
V. be inferior &c adj.; fall short of, come short of; not pass, not
come up to; want.
become smaller, render smaller &c (decrease) 36, (contract) 195;
hide its diminished head, retire into the shade, yield the palm, play
second fiddle, be upstaged, take a back seat.
Adj. inferior, smaller; small &c 32; minor, less, lesser, deficient,
minus, lower, subordinate, secondary; secondrate &c (imperfect) 651;
sub, subaltern; thrown into the shade; weighed in the balance and found
wanting; not fit to hold a candle to, can't hold a candle to.
least, smallest &c (little) (small) &c 193; lowest.
diminished &c (decreased) 36; reduced &c (contracted) 195;
unimportant &c 643.
Adv. less; under the mark, below the mark, below par; at the bottom of
the scale, at a low ebb, at a disadvantage; short of, under.
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