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Adjectives (5)
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"
Fuzzynyms (43)
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"
plain, lay, popular, nontechnical, unspecialized, untechnical
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"
Synonyms (56)
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
Antonyms (5)
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"
mediocre
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