Synonyms for so-so
- adjective
- adverb
Synonyms by meaning
Adjective
1. Mediocre — neither good nor bad; tolerable, passable, indifferent
mediocre, middling, lackluster US, lack-lustre UK, lacklustre UK, indifferent, meh, passable, average, tolerable, fair, ordinary, moderate, okayish informal rare
Other
ok-ok informal IN
Adverb
1. Passably
Definitions
- adj. 1
Neither good nor bad; tolerable, passable, indifferent.
The dessert was pretty good, but the meal was so-so.
- adv. 1
Neither very well nor very poorly.
He performed so-so during the tryouts, and the coach was undecided whether to add him to the team or not.
Related words
- Other spellings
- so so
Example sentences
- mediocre Don't excuse yourself into living a mediocre life.
- meh "Where do you want to sit? The sofa or the chair?" "Meh, either one's fine."
- middling Voters of the middling sort don't see it that way.
- passable It's passable. Nothing out of the ordinary.
By length
- 3 letters
- meh
- 4 letters
- fair1
- 7 letters
- average3, blandly2, okayish
- 8 letters
- ordinary4, moderate3, mediocre4, middling3, passable3, passably3
- 9 letters
- tolerable4, tolerably, insipidly
- 10 letters
- moderately4, lackluster3, lacklustre, acceptably4
- 11 letters
- indifferent3
- 13 letters
- indifferently4
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (average3 = 3 syllables).