Synonyms for mediocre
- adjective
Most common
All synonyms
Adjective
1. Middling
so-so informal, middling, average, decent, indifferent, passable, tolerable, unexceptional, moderate, commonplace, common, fair, mean, medium, pedestrian, okayish informal, meh, dull, respectable, mid slang
Other
Definitions
- adj. 1
Not excellent or outstanding, usually disappointingly so.
I'm pretty good at tennis but only mediocre at racquetball.
Related words
- Is a kind of
- intermediate
Example sentences
- average His mental level is higher than the average boy's.
- decent No decent human being could possibly believe this.
- middling Voters of the middling sort don't see it that way.
- passable It's passable. Nothing out of the ordinary.
- trashy David is too trashy for Amanda.
By length
- 3 letters
- mid1, meh
- 4 letters
- mean1, fair1, dull1
- 6 letters
- common2, medium3, decent2, trashy2
- 7 letters
- average3, okayish
- 8 letters
- moderate3, middling3, passable3
- 9 letters
- tolerable4
- 10 letters
- pedestrian4
- 11 letters
- respectable4, indifferent3, commonplace3
- 13 letters
- unexceptional
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (common2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- médiocre
- Italiano
- mediocre
- Español
- mediocre
- Deutsch
- mittelmäßig
- Català
- mediocre