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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: moderate to inferior in quality; "they improved the quality from mediocre to above average" [syn: mediocre, second-rate]
2: lacking 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, mediocre, middling]
3: poor to middling in quality; "there have been good and mediocre and bad artists"

Merriam Webster's

adjective Etymology: Middle French, from Latin mediocris, from medius middle + Old Latin ocris stony mountain; akin to Latin acer sharp — more at edge Date: circa 1586 of moderate or low quality, value, ability, or performance ; ordinary, so-so

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. 1 of middling quality, neither good nor bad. 2 second-rate. Etymology: F médiocre or f. L mediocris of middle height or degree f. medius middle + ocris rugged mountain

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Mediocre Me"di*o`cre, a. [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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Mediocre Me"di*o`cre, n. 1. A mediocre person. [R.] 2. A young monk who was excused from performing a portion of a monk's duties. --Shipley.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

If you describe something as mediocre, you mean that it is of average quality but you think it should be better. His school record was mediocre. ...mediocre music. ADJ [disapproval]

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Indifferent, ordinary, commonplace, middling, mean, medium, average.

Moby Thesaurus

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