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Date: 1500-1600
Language: French
Origin: Latin mediocris 'halfway up a mountain', from medius 'middle' + ocris 'stony mountain'

mediocre

 adjective
     
me‧di‧o‧cre
not very good [= second rate]:
I thought the book was pretty mediocre.
a mediocre student
—mediocrity noun [uncountable]
WORD FOCUS: bad WORD FOCUS: bad
very bad: awful, terrible, horrible, lousy informal, appalling, ghastly, atrocious, horrendous
bad, but not very bad: not very good, mediocre, second-rate, so-so, lacklustre
of bad quality: shoddy, inferior, poor quality, cheap, crummy informal
bad at doing something: be no good at something
very bad at doing something: hopeless, terrible, useless, lousy informal, incompetent
morally bad: evil, wicked, immoral, corrupt, sick, perverted, degenerate

➔ See also bad
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