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mediocre
/ˌmidiˈoʊkəɹ/
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What does mediocre mean?
adjective
- Not excellent or outstanding, usually disappointingly so.
noun
- A person of minor significance, accomplishment or acclaim; a common and undistinguished person.
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noun
- (historical) A member of a socioeconomic class between the upper ranks of society and the agricultural workers.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˌmidiˈoʊkəɹ/
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This was, however, such a mediocre specimen that it did not appeal to the taste of the English dog-loving public.
Men would merely have established that equality in poverty desired by the jealousy and envy of a host of mediocre minds.
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In the middle of his second year he was declared idle, and even marked as an insufficient pupil and of mediocre intelligence.
At this stage he made only a mediocre showing in his business career, though his evident honesty secured him promotion to a clerk's position.
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.