About The Word Mediocre
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Mediocre
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What's The Definition Of Mediocre?
[adj] poor to middling in quality; "there have been good and mediocre and bad artists"
[adj] of no exceptional quality or ability; "a novel of average merit"; "only a fair performance of the sonata"; "in fair health"; "the caliber of the students has gone from mediocre to above average"; "the performance was middling at best" [adj] moderate to inferior in quality; "they improved the quality from mediocre to above average"; "he would make a poor spy" Synonyms | Synonyms for Mediocre: average | bad | fair | inferior | middling | ordinary | poor | second-rate Related Terms | Find terms related to Mediocre: adulterated | amidships | artless | average | bad | banal | base | betwixt and between | blemished | central | common | commonplace | core | damaged | defective | deficient | dull | equatorial | equidistant | erroneous | everyday | fair | fair to middling | fairish | fallible | faulty | found wanting | garden-variety | half-assed | halfway | immature | impaired | imperfect | imprecise | impure | inaccurate | inadept | inadequate | inapt | inattentive | incompetent | incomplete | indifferent | inefficient | inept | inexact | inexpert | inferior | insipid | insufficient | interior | intermediary | intermediate | lacking | lackluster | little | makeshift | maladroit | mean | medial | median | mediterranean | medium | mesial | mezzo | mid | middle | middlemost | middle-of-the-road | middling | midland | midmost | midships | midway | mixed | moderate | modest | namby-pamby | no great shakes | normal | not bad | not comparable | not in it | not perfect | nuclear | of a kind | of a sort | of sorts | off | ordinary | out of it | partial | passable | patchy | pedestrian | petty | poor | respectable | routine | run-of-the-mill | second-rate | shabby | short | sketchy | skill-less | small | so so | so-so | standard | tedious | third-rate | thoughtless | tolerable | trivial | unapt | undeft | undeveloped | undexterous | undextrous | undistinguished | uneven | unexceptional | unfacile | unfinished | unimaginative | uninspired | unintelligent | unperfected | unproficient | unskillful | unsound | unthorough | usual | vapid | wanting | wishy-washy See Also | Mediocre In Webster's Dictionary \Me"di*o`cre\, a. [F. m['e]diocre, L. mediocris, fr.
medius middle. See {Mid}.]
Of a middle quality; of but a moderate or low degree of
excellence; indifferent; ordinary. `` A very mediocre poet.''
--Pope.
\Me"di*o`cre\, n. 1. A mediocre person. [R.] 2. A young monk who was excused from performing a portion of a monk's duties. --Shipley. |
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