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Indifferent beginning to operation after distress call
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so-so
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Word definitions for so-so in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
So-so \So"-so`\, a. [So + so.] Neither very good nor very bad; middling; passable; tolerable; indifferent. In some Irish houses, where things are so-so, One gammon of bacon hangs up for a show. --Goldsmith. He [Burns] certainly wrote some so-so verses to ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1520s as an adverb, "indifferently;" as an adjective, "mediocre, neither too good nor too bad," 1540s; from so .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Neither good nor bad; tolerable, passable, indifferent. adv. Neither very well nor very poorly.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. neither good nor bad; "an indifferent performance"; "a gifted painter but an indifferent actor"; "her work at the office is passable"; "a so-so golfer"; "feeling only so-so"; "prepared a tolerable dinner"; "a tolerable working knowledge of French" ...
Usage examples of so-so.
As soon as they were alone, Monsieur Lheureux in sufficiently clear terms began to congratulate Emma on the inheritance, then to talk of indifferent matters, of the espaliers, of the harvest, and of his own health, which was always so-so, always having ups and downs.
Santies, some Sierrans, Santy officers, damned good equipment and so-so training.
Father was very good at backgammon and so-so at color photography, they say.
Logic had told her that Seng was being bribed with upgrades on his collection of jade erotica - excellent pieces swapped for the so-so goods she had examined on Farmer Island.