Mediocre

Definitions: Mediocre

Mediocre

Adjective

1. Moderate to inferior in quality; "they improved the quality from mediocre to above average"; "he would make a poor spy".

2. Of no 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".

3. Poor to middling in quality; "there have been good and mediocre and bad artists".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "mediocre" was first used: 1586. (references)

Synonyms: Mediocre

Imperfection

Indifferent, middling, ordinary, mediocre; average; so-so; coucicouci, milk and water; tolerable, fair, passable; pretty well, pretty good; rather good, moderately good; good; good enough, well enough, adequate; decent; not bad, not amiss; inobjectionable, unobjectionable, admissible, bearable, only better than nothing.

Mean

Mediocre, middle-class; commonplace; (unimportant).

Unimportance

Subordinate; (inferior); mediocre; (average); passable, fair, respectable, tolerable, commonplace; uneventful, mere, common; ordinary; (habitual); inconsiderable, so-so, insignificant, inappreciable.

Crosswords: Mediocre

Italian (bush league, indifferent, mean, mediocre, middling, moderate, ordinary, poor, second rate), Spanish (average, bushleague, humdrum, mediocre, moderate, nondescript, poor, undistinguished).

But we're not mediocre, are we, Miss Parker? (The Pretender; writing credit: Katerina Marinaki)

That's a very mediocre commodity. (The Wizard of Oz; writing credit: L. Frank Baum; Noel Langley)

There are too many mediocre things to deal with. Love shouldn't be one of them. (references; author: unknown)

Mediocre Fred (performing artist: Smothers Brothers)

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Books

• Views From the Cheap Seats: Lifestyles of the Unskilled and Mediocre (reference)

• The Skillful Leader: Confronting Mediocre Teaching (reference)

• Smart Salespeople Sometimes Wear Plaid: Dare to Be Extraordinary in a Mediocre World (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Mediocre Generica (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Business

Poor or mediocre service often leads to lower sales. (references)

However, mass distribution in Italy is still generally viewed as synonymous to mass despecialization, with a risk for high quality products sold in hypermarkets to be identified as mediocre. (references)

Despite diminishing, mediocre returns in many health indicator areas, both the Chinese government and its populace have increased health care spending considerably since the advent of Deng Xiaoping�s 1978 reforms. (references)

Political Economy

Guinea-Bissau

He called the dismissed justices corrupt, mediocre, and liars; however, he did not provide evidence to support these assertions. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expression using "mediocre": in mediocre way. Additional references.

Albanian

mesatar (average, mean, measurable, medium, mesial, mid, middling, moderate, neutral, normal, par), mediokër (ordinary). (various references)

Arabic 

‏متوسط (age, average, central, intermediary, intermediate, mean, medial, median, medium, middle, middling, moderate, ordinary, pass, poorly), ‏عادي (average, banal, classless, common, commonplace, conventional, household, lay, mean, medial, middling, mundane, natural, normal, ordinary, plain, plebeian, poor, prosaic, run of the mill, second rate, simple, some, stock, trivial, unexceptional, wont). (various references)

Bulgarian 

посредствен (indifferent, inferior, mean, middling, moderate, ordinary, potty, run of the mill, second rate, tame, tatty, undistinguished). (various references)

Chinese 

平庸. (various references)

Czech

podprùmìrný (below the average, subnormal, substandard). (various references)

Farsi 

میانحال , متوسط (Average, Intermediate, Mean, Medial, Medium, Midway, Normal, Tolerable), وسط (Amid, Amidst, Meddle, Middling, Navel), حدوسط (Average, Cross, Mean, Mediocrity, Norm, Soso). (various references)

Finnish

keskinkertainen (medium, moderate). (various references)

French

médiocre, quelconque, piètre (measly). (various references)

German

mittelmäßig (average, indifferent, middling, moderate, undistinguished). (various references)

Greek 

μέτριοσ (medium, mezzo, middling, moderate, passable, temperate, unremarkable). (various references)

Hebrew 

ממוצע (average, mean), פחות (depreciation, devaluation, diminution, inferior, least, less, meagre, minus, reduction, scanty), בינוני (average, fair, intermediate, mean, medial, medium, mid, middle, middling, moderate, par, run of the mill, second rate), רגיל (accustomed, common, habitual, ordinary, par, simple, standard, stock, unexceptional, usual, wont, wonted). (various references)

Hungarian

olyan amilyen (such as it is), közepes (average, fair to middling, mean, medium, middle-class, middling, moderate, so so), középszerű (indifferent, middle, middle-class, slender). (various references)

Indonesian

sedang-sedang (adequate), cukupan (adequate, just enough). (various references)

Italian

mediocre (bush league, indifferent, mean, middling, moderate, ordinary, poor, second rate). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

平凡 (common, commonplace, ordinary), 凡人 (average person, ordinary person), 凡庸 (banality, commonplace). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ぼんにん (average person, ordinary person), ぼんよう (banality, commonplace), ぼんじん (average person, ordinary person), じんじょういちよう (common, ordinary), へいぼん (common, commonplace, ordinary), へいへいぼんぼんたる (ordinary), へいへいぼんぼん (common, ordinary), へんてつもない (monotonous, usual), ちゅう (air, annotation, before, comment, companion, explanatory note, explanatory notes, medium, midair, sake, same kind, similar kinds, space). (various references)

Korean 

평범한 (Commonplace, Conventional). (various references)

Pig Latin

ediocremay

Portuguese

medievismo, medíocre (average, bush league, dissatisfactory, middle sized, Midge, poor, run of the mill, so so, undistinguished, unsatisfactory), vulgar (accepted, artless, banal, blanket, coarse, common, commonplace, demotic, dismal, earthy, everyday, everything, got drunk, gross, hackneycarriage, hacksaw, humdrum, inelaborate, low, low-necked, ordinary, pedestrian crosswalk, penny-a-liner, platitudinous, Plato, prosaic, quotidian, ready made, soulless, trite, trivial, undistinguished, uninspired, unladylike, unoriginal, usual, vulgar, vulgarian). (various references)

Romanian

mediocru (indifferent, middling, moderate, second rate, unpretending), comun (banal, base, common, communal, current, everyday, frequent, general, joint, low, mutual, ordinary, rife, universal, usual, vulgar), banal (banal, cheap, commonplace, daily, dusty, everyday, hackneyed, humdrum, indifferent, indistinctive, insipid, puerile, small, threadbare, trite, trivial, unimaginative). (various references)

Russian 

посредственный (fair, indifferent, mean, ordinary, ornery, second rate). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

prosečan (average), osrednji (indifferent, medium, middling, passable). (various references)

Spanish

mediocre (average, bushleague, humdrum, moderate, nondescript, poor, undistinguished), mediano (average, fair, median, medium, middle, middling, moderate). (various references)

Swedish

medelmåttig (indifferent, inferior, medium, middling, second rate, undistinguished). (various references)

Turkish

vasat (everyday, fair, fair average, indifferent, par, undistinguished), sıradan (average, banal, blah, casual, casually, common, common or garden, commonplace, copybook, cut and dried, exoteric, hack, hackneyed, nondescript, ordinary, prosaic, quotidian, regular, routine, run-off-the-mill, small, straight, unexceptional, workaday), orta (bosom, c, center, central, centre, fair, in between, intermediary, intermediate, mean, medial, median, mediate, medium, mesial, mesne, meso-, mezzo-, mid, mid-, middle, middling, midst, moderate, passable, secondary), olağan (common, commonplace, everyday, mundane, ordinary, regular, run-off-the-mill, usual), alelâde (blah, common, common or garden, common place, commonly, hack, nondescript, ordinary, run-off-the-mill, workaday). (various references)

Ukranian 

звичайний (accustomed, average, common, common or garden, consuetudinary, conventional, customary, everyday, frequent, homely, natural, normal, ordinary, positive, regulation, rife, run of the mill, uneventful, unexceptional, usual), посередній (mean, middling, ordinary, ornery, second rate, undistinguished). (various references)

Vietnamese 

xoàng (meager, meagre, undistinguished), thường (banal, habitual, normal, often, oftentimes, ordinary, still, trifling, trivial, unsatisfactory, usual, vulgar). (various references)

mediocris, mediocritatem. (various references)

Misspellings

"Mediocre" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: mediacre, medicore, medicre, medicro, mediocare, mediocer, mediochre, mediocore, mediocres, mediocrie, mediocure, medioker, medoocre, Medugorje, meritocrat, moidore, Redivorce. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: dormice, emeroid.

-2 letters: deicer, dermic, dormie, emerod, medico, oreide, recode.

-3 letters: ceder, cered, cider, coder, comer, cored, credo, creed, creme, cried, crime, decor, deice, dicer, dimer, domic, eider, erode, medic, merde, micro, mired, moire, riced, rimed.

-4 letters: cede, cedi, cere, cero, cire, code, coed, coir, come, cord, core, corm, deco, deem, deer, deme, demo.

+2 letters: echinoderm, entodermic, recombined, recompiled.

+3 letters: aeromedical, chemisorbed, comraderies, coredeeming, democracies, democratize, divorcement, echinoderms, encrimsoned, endothermic, eudiometric, microreader, misericorde, misreckoned, misrecorded, overclaimed, recommitted, reconfirmed.

+4 letters: aeromedicine, commanderies, commiserated, computerised, computerized, countermined, democratized, democratizer, democratizes, divorcements, hemichordate, immoderacies, improvidence, mediocrities, microreaders, misericordes, overmedicate, predominance, recommending.

+5 letters: aeromedicines, commandeering, comprehending, comradeliness, confirmedness, contemporized, copolymerized, decompressing, decompression, democratizers, densitometric, documentaries, dysmenorrheic, hemichordates, improvidences, intercompared, microinjected, monoglyceride, overcommitted, overdominance, overmedicated, overmedicates, predominances, tragicomedies.

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