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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
mediocre \me'di*o"cre\ (m[=e]'d[i^]*[=o]"k[~e]r), adjective [F. m['e]diocre, L. mediocris, fr. medius middle. See {Mid}.] Of a middle quality; of but a moderate or low degree of excellence; indifferent; ordinary. '' A very mediocre poet.'' --Pope.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Mediocre \Me"di*o'cre\, noun
1. A mediocre person; a mediocrity. [R.]
2. A young monk who was excused from performing a portion of a monk's duties. --Shipley.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
mediocre
adjective
1: moderate to inferior in quality; "they improved the quality from mediocre to above average"; "he would make a poor spy" [syn: {poor}, {second-rate}]
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" [syn: {average}, {fair}, {middling}]
3: poor to middling in quality; "there have been good and mediocre and bad artists"
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
136 Moby Thesaurus words for "mediocre": adulterated, amidships, artless, average, bad, banal, base, betwixt and between, blemished, central, common, commonplace, core, damaged, defective, deficient, dull, equatorial, equidistant, erroneous, everyday, fair, fair to middling, fairish, fallible, faulty, found wanting, garden-variety, half-assed, halfway, immature, impaired, imperfect, imprecise, impure, inaccurate, inadept, inadequate, inapt, inattentive, incompetent, incomplete, indifferent, inefficient, inept, inexact, inexpert, inferior, insipid, insufficient, interior, intermediary, intermediate, lacking, lackluster, little, makeshift, maladroit, mean, medial, median, mediterranean, medium, mesial, mezzo, mid, middle, middle-of-the-road, middlemost, middling, midland, midmost, midships, midway, mixed, moderate, modest, namby-pamby, no great shakes, normal, not bad, not comparable, not in it, not perfect, nuclear, of a kind, of a sort, of sorts, off, ordinary, out of it, partial, passable, patchy, pedestrian, petty, poor, respectable, routine, run-of-the-mill, second-rate, shabby, short, sketchy, skill-less, small, so so, so-so, standard, tedious, third-rate, thoughtless, tolerable, trivial, unapt, undeft, undeveloped, undexterous, undextrous, undistinguished, uneven, unexceptional, unfacile, unfinished, unimaginative, uninspired, unintelligent, unperfected, unproficient, unskillful, unsound, unthorough, usual, vapid, wanting, wishy-washy
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