A person or thing considered to be defective.
A word written without matres lectionis (letters indicating vowels).
Without matres lectionis (letters indicating vowels) written out.
Not capable of representing all the phonemic distinctions of a language it is used to write.
Spelled without matres lectionis, for example אמץ (ómets, “courage”) as opposed to the plene spelling אומץ where the letter vav ⟨ו⟩ indicates the vowel o.
Lacking some forms; e.g., having only one tense or being usable only in the third person.
Having one or more defects.
Having a root whose final consonant is weak (ي, و, or ء).
A person of lower rank, stature, or ability to another.
An inferior letter, figure, or symbol.
Nearer to the Sun than the Earth is.
(of a court or tribunal) Susceptible to having its decisions overturned by a higher court.
Lower in rank, status, or quality.
On the side of a flower which is next to the bract.
Situated further below (another part of the body), a direction that in humans corresponds to caudad.
Situated in a relatively low posterior or ventral position in a quadrupedal body.
Situated below some other organ (said of a calyx when free from the ovary, and therefore below it, or of an ovary with an adherent and therefore inferior calyx).
Of low rank, standard or quality.
Denoting goods or services which are in greater demand during a recession than in a boom, for example second-hand clothes.
Below the horizon.
Printed in subscript.