mediocre

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"
    

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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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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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