Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Not measuring up to traditional standards of performance, value, or production.
- adj. Below par in a hole, round, or game of golf.
Wiktionary
- adj. Being of less than a traditional or accepted standard
- adj. golf below par
- adj. finance Trading a price below face value.
Etymologies
- sub- + par (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Specifically, she says Frons installed a new head writer for the show in 2008 — Charles Pratt, Jr. by name — whose writing she called "subpar.”
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“Like a fake story between books would seem like a fanfiction (in other words a subpar story meant to supplement an awesome one) I think any non PJ movie would be like a fanfilm of the original, or else go to such efforts to not seem like one that it will lose everything that was so great about the originals to begin with.”
“But so often great premises are lost in subpar writing and becoming too attached to one’s agenda (as you said, it was written to comment on right-wing crap that was going on after 9/11″).”
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“TAMPA - Verizon Communications Inc. could pay a heavy price for what state regulators call subpar law enforcement official Tuesday ...”
“TAMPA - Verizon Communications Inc. could pay a heavy price for what state regulators call subpar”
“Fassel first became a head coach with the University of Utah, four seasons best described as subpar for an overall record of 25-33.”
“There were reports as far back as 2005 that some of the consultants on the project were "subpar" and that US contractors were receiving widespread criticism locally.”
“More than 100 residents launched the strike in 2008 after building conditions became "subpar" and negotiations with the complex's owner, the Lightstone Group, stalled, said Phylisa Carter, a staff attorney with Bread for the City, the District nonprofit organization that handled the cases of several striking tenants.”
“This is the kind of subpar growth net of inflation we had in the early 1990s and much of the 1970s.”
“But, pro sports is cruel and the reality is that Ricketts has been "subpar" most of the year.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘subpar’.
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words
my words. my mind. my gosh.
try not to enjoy it too much.git, ghoti, sauce, quail, querulous, quarrelsome, reliability, untoward, incongruities, fission, fanatic, apple and 206 more...
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soph2's Words
serendipity, audacity, groak, petrichor, lethologica, loganamnosis, agnuopia, dysania, dysphagia, neologism, incredulity, harbinger and 246 more...
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kmalladi's favorites
edification, penchant, ablution, extricate, frank, triumvirate, trifecta, egregious, hoi polloi, articulate, antediluvian, brusque and 291 more...
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As soon as I finish this chapter
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procrastination, drily, rheumatism, rheum, suint, tiresome, wearisome, tiring, suboptimal, subpar, subprime, grange and 190 more...
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MsHalston's Words
theoretically, insufferable, apolitico, milquetoast, egregious, aplomb, elan, fraught, flummox, befrocked, moll, molten and 605 more...
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Idioms or Phrases or "expressions"
like nobody's bui..., soap up, plug away, country club, horse whisperer, cease and desist, eye of the beholder, small-claims court, nut job, heebie-jeebies, hole in the wall, black-tie and 101 more...
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Sarilas's Words
chortle, serendipity, inept, retro, tenacious, penchant, mediocrity, claret, gust, pomp, circumstance, pageantry and 97 more...
Tweets
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atapizdun @a yeah, it's funny how it has two different meanings Oct 26, 2011