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fair, middling, average

adj. 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"

poor, second-rate

adj. moderate to inferior in quality; "they improved the quality from mediocre to above average"

poor, mediocre, second-rate

adj. moderate to inferior in quality; "they improved the quality from mediocre to above average"

fair, adequate, passable, fair to middling

adj. about average; acceptable; "more than adequate as a secretary"

adj. not characteristic of or skilled in applied arts and sciences; "nontechnical aspects of the job"; "nontechnical training"; "an untechnical reader"; "in clear effective nontechnical language"

normal, average

adj. conforming with or constituting a norm or standard or level or type or social norm; not abnormal; "serve wine at normal room temperature"; "normal diplomatic relations"; "normal working hours"; "normal word order"; "normal curiosity"; "the normal course of events"

ordinary

adj. lacking special distinction, rank, or status; commonly encountered; "average people"; "the ordinary (or common) man in the street"

pedestrian, prosaic, prosy

adj. lacking wit or imagination; "a pedestrian movie plot"

acceptable, satisfactory

adj. meeting requirements; "the step makes a satisfactory seat"

even, tied

adj. of the score in a contest; "the score is tied"

balanced

adj. being in a state of proper balance or equilibrium; "the carefully balanced seesaw"; "a properly balanced symphony orchestra"; "a balanced assessment of intellectual and cultural history"; "a balanced blend of whiskeys"; "the educated man shows a balanced development of all his powers"

tolerable, indifferent, so-so

adj. being neither good nor bad; "an indifferent performance"; "a gifted painter but an indifferent actor"; "her work at the office is passable"; "a so-so golfer"; "feeling only so-so"; "prepared a tolerable dinner"; "a tolerable working knowledge of French"

fair, middling, average, mediocre

adj. 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"

fair, adequate, passable, fair to middling

adj. about average; acceptable; "more than adequate as a secretary"

small, peanut, little, insignificant

adj. of little importance or influence or power; of minor status; "a minor, insignificant bureaucrat"; "peanut politicians"

lackluster, lacklustre

adj. lacking brilliance or vitality; "a dull lackluster life"; "a lusterless performance"

faulty, defective

adj. having a defect; "I returned the appliance because it was defective"

commonplace, trivial, banal

adj. obvious and dull; "trivial conversation"; "commonplace prose"

nondescript, characterless

adj. lacking distinct or individual characteristics; dull and uninteresting; "women dressed in nondescript clothes"; "a nondescript novel"

common, simple

adj. to be expected; standard; "common decency"

routine, usual, everyday, mundane, quotidian, workaday, unremarkable

adj. found in the ordinary course of events; "a placid everyday scene"; "it was a routine day"; "there's nothing quite like a real...train conductor to add color to a quotidian commute"- Anita Diamant

tolerable, indifferent, so-so

adj. being neither good nor bad; "an indifferent performance"; "a gifted painter but an indifferent actor"; "her work at the office is passable"; "a so-so golfer"; "feeling only so-so"; "prepared a tolerable dinner"; "a tolerable working knowledge of French"

run-of-the-mill, unexceptional

adj. not special in any way; "run-of-the-mill boxing"; "your run-of-the-mine college graduate"; "a unexceptional an incident as can be found in a lawyer's career"

bad

adj. below average in quality or performance; "a bad chess player"; "a bad recital"

base

adj. (used of metals) consisting of or alloyed with inferior metal; "base coins of aluminum"; "a base metal"

bum, punk, cheap, chintzy, tinny, sleazy, cheesy, crummy, tatty

adj. of very poor quality; flimsy

cardboard, flimsy

adj. resembling cardboard especially in flimsiness; "apartments with cardboard walls"

shoddy, cheapjack, tawdry

adj. cheap and shoddy; "cheapjack moviemaking...that feeds on the low taste of the mob"- Judith Crist

common, crude, coarse

adj. of low or inferior quality or value; "of what coarse metal ye are molded"- Shakespeare; "produced...the common cloths used by the poorer population"

coarsened

adj. made coarse or crude by lack of skill

commercial

adj. of the kind or quality used in commerce; average or inferior; "commercial grade of beef"; "commercial oxalic acid"

miserable, wretched, execrable, deplorable, woeful

adj. of very poor quality or condition; "deplorable housing conditions in the inner city"; "woeful treatment of the accused"; "woeful errors of judgment"

less

adj. (usually preceded by `no') lower in quality; "no less than perfect"

low-grade

adj. of inferior quality

ropey, ropy

adj. (British informal) very poor in quality; "ropey food"; "a ropey performance"

scrawny, scrubby, stunted

adj. inferior in size or quality; "scrawny cattle"; "scrubby cut-over pine"; "old stunted thorn trees"

second-class

adj. of inferior status or quality; "a second-class citizen"; "second-class accommodations"

third-rate

adj. of lesser quality than second-rate

utility, utility-grade

adj. used of beef; usable but inferior

superior

adj. of high or superior quality or performance; "superior wisdom derived from experience"; "superior math students"

fine, excellent

adj. of the highest quality; "made an excellent speech"; "the school has excellent teachers"; "a first-class mind"

supreme, superb

adj. highest in excellence or achievement; "supreme among musicians"; "a supreme endxxeavor"; "supreme courage"

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