Meaning of MEDIOCRITY
| Pronunciation: | | `meedee'âkritee
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- [n] ordinariness as a consequence of being average and not outstanding
- [n] a person of second-rate ability or value; "a team of aging second-raters"; "shone among the mediocrities who surrounded him"
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| | Synonyms: | | averageness, second-rater |
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| | See Also: | | human, individual, mortal, ordinariness, person, somebody, someone, soul | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Me`di*oc"ri*ty\, n. [F. m['e]diocrit['e], L.
mediocritas.]
1. The quality of being mediocre; a middle state or degree; a
moderate degree or rate. ``A mediocrity of success.''
--Bacon.
2. Moderation; temperance. [Obs.] --Hooker.
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| | Related Terms: | | a nobody, a nothing, adulteration, average, balance, baseness, bourgeoisie, burgherdom, center, cipher, common man, defectibility, defectiveness, deficiency, dull tool, dummy, erroneousness, failure, fallibility, faultiness, fewness, figurehead, fourth-rater, generality, golden mean, greenhorn, happy medium, immaturity, impairment, imperfection, impurity, inability, inaccuracy, inadeptness, inadequacy, inadequateness, inaptitude, inaptness, inattentiveness, incapability, incapable, incapacity, incompetence, incompetency, incompetent, incompleteness, indexterity, ineffectiveness, ineffectuality, inefficiency, ineptness, inexactitude, inexactness, insignificancy, insufficiency, jackstraw, juste-milieu, lack, lightweight, little fellow, little guy, littleness, maladjustment, maladroitness, man of straw, mean, meanness, median, medium, middle, Middle America, middle class, middle course, middle ground, middle order, middle orders, middle point, middle position, middle state, middle-of-the-road, midpoint, nebbish, no conjuror, no prize, nobody one knows, nobody special, nonentity, norm, normal, nothing special, obscurity, par, patchiness, pedestrianism, pettiness, pip-squeak, punk, rule, run, runt, rustiness, scrub, second-rater, shabbiness, shortage, shortcoming, shrimp, silent majority, sketchiness, skill-lessness, small beer, small fry, small potato, small potatoes, smallness, squirt, squit, subnormality, suburbia, third-rater, thoughtlessness, tinhorn, triviality, unaptness, uncleverness, undeftness, undevelopment, undexterousness, undextrousness, unevenness, unfitness, unfittedness, unintelligence, unperfectedness, unproficiency, unschooledness, unskillfulness, unsoundness, untrainedness, via media, vulgarity, want, whiffet, whippersnapper |
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