[syn: average, fair, mediocre, middling]
3. poor to middling in quality;
- Example: "there have been good and mediocre and bad artists"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Mediocre \Me"di*o`cre\, n.
1. A mediocre person; a mediocrity. [R.]
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2. A young monk who was excused from performing a portion of
a monk's duties. --Shipley.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
mediocre \me`di*o"cre\ (m[=e]`d[i^]*[=o]"k[~e]r), 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.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
mediocre
adj 1: moderate to inferior in quality; "they improved the
quality from mediocre to above average" [syn: mediocre,
second-rate]
2: lacking 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"
[syn: average, fair, mediocre, middling]
3: poor to middling in quality; "there have been good and
mediocre and bad artists"
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
136 Moby Thesaurus words for "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,
middle-of-the-road, middlemost, 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