MEDIOCRE
(adj.) poor to middling in quality
"there have been good and mediocre and bad artists"
(adj.) 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"
synonyms : average , fair , middling(adj.) moderate to inferior in quality
"they improved the quality from mediocre to above average"
synonyms : second-rate
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Mnemonics for mediocre
(Tag: ) mediocre sounding lyk medium which means average so a mediocre performance in da sense an average performance
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(Tag: ) mediocre~ media+cry media is always crying so it is ordinary thing
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(Tag: ) Medio=middle ; so things are in between good and bad ; so it must be of average quality.
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(Tag: ) mediocre sounds like medium/middle place...middle will be COMMON point for two places...and common=ordinary..
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