Meaning of MEDIOCRE
| Pronunciation: | | `meedee'owkr
|
 WordNet Dictionary |
| |
| | Definition: | |
- [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"
|
| |
| | Websites: | | |
| |
| | Synonyms: | | average, bad, fair, inferior, middling, ordinary, poor, second-rate |
| |
|
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
| |
| | Definition: | |
\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.
|
| |
| Thesaurus Terms |
| |
| | Related Terms: | | 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 |
| |
|
|
|