Difference between Inferior and Miserable

What is the difference between Inferior and Miserable?

Inferior as an adjective is of lower quality while Miserable as an adjective is in a state of misery: very sad, ill, or poor.

Inferior

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: of lower quality of lower rank located below In botany, inside the flower stalk below the petals. Said of an ovary.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: a person of lower stature to another

Example sentence: We call ourselves a dog's 'master' - but who ever dared to call himself the 'master' of a cat? We own a dog - he is with us as a slave and inferior because we wish him to be. But we entertain a cat - he adorns our hearth as a guest, fellow-lodger, and equal because he wishes to be there.

Miserable

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: In a state of misery: very sad, ill, or poor.Very bad (at something); unskilled, incompetent.

Example sentence: Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.

We hope you now know whether to use Inferior or Miserable in your sentence.

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