Crossword clues for mediocre
mediocre
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
mediocre \me`di*o"cre\ (m[=e]`d[i^]*[=o]"k[~e]r), 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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1580s, from Middle French médiocre (16c.), from Latin mediocris "of middling height or state, moderate, ordinary," figuratively "mediocre, mean, inferior," originally "halfway up a mountain," from medius "middle" (see medial (adj.)) + ocris "jagged mountain" (cognate with Greek okris "peak, point," Welsh ochr "corner, border," Latin acer "sharp;" see acrid). As a noun, "medicore thing or person," by 1834.
Wiktionary
a. ordinary: not extraordinary; not special, exceptional, or great; of medium quality;
WordNet
adj. moderate to inferior in quality; "they improved the quality from mediocre to above average"; "he would make a poor spy" [syn: poor, second-rate]
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]
poor to middling in quality; "there have been good and mediocre and bad artists"
Wikipedia
Mediocre and mediocrity may refer to:
Mediocre is the Grammy Award and Latin Grammy nominated debut album of Mexican singer and actress Ximena Sariñana, released in the United States on . Mediocre reached #10 on Billboard's Latin Pop Albums, and spawned the hit single " Vidas Paralelas" ("Parallel Lives"). The album gained additional attention when the iTunes Store featured Sariñana's song "Normal" as the canción de la semana — iTunes' free Latino song of the week — during the week of .
Mediocre garnered good reviews from many critics, receiving five stars from SoMinty, four stars from Time Out, and four stars from Rolling Stone magazine. Many critics praise Mediocre for being an eclectic album with a diverse style of songs featuring pop, rock, alternative, and nueva canción styles.
Usage examples of "mediocre".
Litho forges by lithography, a printing process using stone developed two centuries ago by Aloys Senefelder, a mediocre playwright wanting to facsimile his plays on the cheap.
It is characterized by having more individuals of a mediocre degree and progressively fewer above and below this mode.
And Vardanes, whose malignance was neither mediocre nor trivial, had coveted Alypia for years.
Green priests were in such demand that even a mediocre one such as Arcas could choose from innumerable offers of employment.
Sharpe, and, quite frankly, most episc ipal palaces are inhabited by very mediocre men.
This Giusto was by no means a mediocre artist, but he consumed all his forces in the vain effort to reconcile his primary Gothic education with the newly awakened spirit of the Renaissance.
Richard Haines had put in three years of mediocre undergraduate work at Georgetown University before he had been recruited for the Bureau.
From a less than mediocre soldier Bloom had vaulted, using the sturdy pole of boxing politics, into the position of being the only private, Pfc or otherwise, whom Old Ike ever called out of the ranks to give Close Order and who was being groomed for Corporal.
Junoesque proportions made Rags instantly resentful of her own mediocre stature, stood in front of the oven taking out the cookie sheet covered with golden brown biscuits.
Mediocre shows, of course, are hooted out of there, or prudently stay away.
Pol Pot then said I should be killed without further ado, but Madam Qing said I should be spared because I am really only a mediocre intellect.
Official Staff Officer Compartment Accouterments, Grade Cheap, Type Mediocre, Quality Uncomfortable, As Per Regulations.
His current home was a farm dating back to the eighteenth century, where he raised Appaloosa horsesriding and mediocre golf were his only remaining hobbiesand lived the quiet life of a gentleman farmer.
In all we should distinguish firstly a base and harmful section, then a mediocre section following established usage, and lastly, an active, progressive section to whom we turn naturally for developments leading towards the progressive world commonweal of our desires.
Lo cierto es que debieron proceder entre justificadas demoras y que alguno de sus concilios tuvo lugar, no en la cumbre difícil de una montaña, sino en una capilla en un bosque, mediocre pabellón de madera blanca, sin otro adorno que la caja rectangular que contiene un espejo.