Mediocre
[,miːdɪ'əʊkə] or [,midɪ'okɚ]
Definition
(adj.) poor to middling in quality; 'there have been good and mediocre and bad artists' .
(adj.) moderate to inferior in quality; 'they improved the quality from mediocre to above average' .
Edited by Juanita--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Of a middle quality; of but a moderate or low degree of excellence; indifferent; ordinary.
(n.) A mediocre person.
(n.) A young monk who was excused from performing a portion of a monk's duties.
Edited by Kathleen
Definition
adj. of middling extent or quality: moderate.—n. Medioc′rity a middle state or condition: a moderate degree: a person of little power or importance.
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Examples
- They reveal a depth and range of meaning in experiences which otherwise might be mediocre and trivial. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Its opposite is the mediocre, the average. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- There is a variety of testimony to the effect that not only musical sounds, but stray words and phrases, were actually transmitted with mediocre, casual success. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- It is empty and thin: a stifling of living currents in the interest of a mediocre regularity. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Miss Gertrude Farish, in fact, typified the mediocre and the ineffectual. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- It means a mediocre hitter in baseball. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
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