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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
mediocre
    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"

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Mediocre \Me"di*o`cre\, n.
   1. A mediocre person; a mediocrity. [R.]
      [1913 Webster]

   2. A young monk who was excused from performing a portion of
      a monk's duties. --Shipley.
      [1913 Webster]

3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.
   [1913 Webster]

Thesaurus Results for mediocre:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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