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[ adjective ] inferior in rank or status

Examples

"the junior faculty" "a lowly corporal" "petty officialdom" "a subordinate functionary"

Used in print

(Bell I. Wiley, "Home Letters of Johnny Reb and Billy...)

A Massachusetts soldier , who seems to have been a Civil_War version of Bill_Mauldin , wrote : `` The officers consider themselves as made of a different material from the low fellows in the ranks .

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junior

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[ adjective ] inferior in rank or status

Examples

"the junior faculty" "a lowly corporal" "petty officialdom" "a subordinate functionary"

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junior

3
[ adjective ] low or inferior in station or quality

Synonyms

small humble modest low

Examples

"a humble cottage" "a lowly parish priest" "a modest man of the people" "small beginnings"

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inferior

4
[ adjective ] used of unskilled work (especially domestic work)

Synonyms

menial humble

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unskilled

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[ adjective ] of low birth or station (`base' is archaic in this sense)

Synonyms

base humble baseborn

Examples

"baseborn wretches with dirty faces" "of humble (or lowly) birth"

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lowborn

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