The antonyms of the phrase "were superior" are several, including inferior, average, normal, mediocre, and subpar. These terms denote something that is not excellent, outstanding, or exceptional. When used to describe a person or thing, they indicate that it falls short of expectations, standards, or requirements. They can also indicate that something is only adequate, satisfactory, or unremarkable, but not exceptional in any way. While being called inferior, average, or mediocre can be a criticism, it is important to remember that not everything can be excellent or outstanding, and that average or normal can still be perfectly acceptable.

What are the antonyms for Were superior?

• v.

  • transcend
  • be inferior
  ,
  • fail
  ,
  • fall behind
  ,
  • lose
  ,
  • surrender
  .

Famous quotes with Were superior

• And no one would interfere with me because of the loaded gun in my hand. Also, a part of me didn’t give a shit anymore if I was caught or not. I could now see that my objective wasn’t just to kill Moses and all these other teachers who had abused us, but for everyone in all the whole world to know why. This wasn’t going to be a surprise attack. This had to be a cold, premeditated act, completely well planned, just as it had been premeditated and well thought out to torture and beat us Mexican kids, starting in kindergarten, so we’d be a people, a gente, with our heads bowed down to authority forever, thinking we were inferior and worthless. I now realized that this was how you enslaved a people. You didn’t just bring them over in chains from Africa. No, you convinced them that they were inferior, not evolved, subhuman, and then when you took off their shackles, so they could go to work, you’d still have them enslaved and shackled inside of their minds for hundreds of years. And this system of teaching was fine with most Anglo teachers, because in the act of convincing us, los Mexicanos and the Blacks, we were subhuman, they’d also convinced themselves that they were superior!

  Victor Villaseñor
• On one occasion Aristotle was asked how much educated men were superior to those uneducated: "As much," said he, "as the living are to the dead."

  Diogenes Laërtius

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