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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Moderate to inferior in quality; ordinary. See Synonyms at average.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Of moderate degree or quality; middling; indifferent; ordinary.
  2. n. One of middling quality, talents, or merit.
  3. n. A monk between twenty-four and forty years of age, who was excused from the office of the chantry and from reading the epistle and gospel, but performed his duty in choir, cloister, and refectory.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Ordinary: not extraordinary; not special, exceptional, or great; of medium quality;

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Of a middle quality; of but a moderate or low degree of excellence; indifferent; ordinary.
  2. n. rare A mediocre person; a mediocrity.
  3. n. A young monk who was excused from performing a portion of a monk's duties.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. lacking exceptional quality or ability
  2. adj. moderate to inferior in quality
  3. adj. poor to middling in quality

Etymologies

  1. From the late Middle English medioker, from the French médiocre, from the Middle French médiocre, from the Classical Latin mediocris ("in a middle state”, “of middle size”, “middling”, “moderate”, “ordinary"), from medius ("middle") + ocris ("rugged mountain"); compare mediocrely and mediocrity. (Wiktionary)
  2. French médiocre, from Latin mediocris : medius, middle; see medhyo- in Indo-European roots + ocris, a rugged mountain; see ak- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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synonyms (5)

Words with the same meaning

  1. indifferent
  1. ordinary
  1. mediocrity
  1. middling
  1. intermediate

equivalents (3)

Other words for ‘mediocre’

  1. ordinary
  1. inferior
  1. bad

same context (19)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. second-rate
  2. outstanding
  3. first-rate
  1. inferior
  2. exceptional
  3. middling
  1. tolerable
  2. indifferent
  3. disappoint
  1. prosaic
  2. unsuccessful
  3. admirable
  1. versatile
  2. consummate
  3. uninteresting
  1. talented
  2. mundane
  3. creative
  1. nineteenth-century

rhymes (14)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. Stoker
  2. Zocor
  1. broker
  2. coker
  1. croaker
  2. croker
  1. folker
  2. joker
  1. nonsmoker
  2. ochre
  1. poker
  2. smoker
  1. soaker
  2. stoker

reverse dictionary (30)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. indifferent
  2. inferior
  3. middle-rate
  4. lackluster
  5. mediocral
  6. mediocrist
  1. bardling
  2. duffer
  3. ticky-tacky
  4. undistinguished
  5. mediocrity
  6. second-rate
  1. common
  2. moderate
  3. sort
  4. OK
  5. shabby
  6. all right
  1. limited
  2. middling
  3. hack
  4. hack writer
  5. literary hack
  6. modified
  1. mediocre
  2. minor-league
  3. passable
  4. neutral
  5. respectable
  6. tolerable

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  • dbekeny WIZARD
    Why, anybody can have a brain. That's a
    very mediocre commodity. Every pusillanimous
    creature that crawls on the earth -- or
    slinks through slimy seas has a brain!
    Jun 10, 2010

  • bilby "Pritchard sighed. 'At my age, I have to work harder and harder to have just a mediocre time, Sheriff.'"
    - 'The Dark Half', Stephen King.
    Dec 31, 2007

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