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SECOND-RATE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does second-rate mean?
• SECOND-RATE (adjective)
The adjective SECOND-RATE has 1 sense:
1. moderate to inferior in quality
Familiarity information: SECOND-RATE used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Moderate to inferior in quality
Synonyms:
mediocre; second-rate
Context example:
they improved the quality from mediocre to above average
Similar:
inferior (of low or inferior quality)
Context examples
She had had many a hint from Mr. Knightley and some from her own heart, as to her deficiency—but none were equal to counteract the persuasion of its being very disagreeable,—a waste of time—tiresome women—and all the horror of being in danger of falling in with the second-rate and third-rate of Highbury, who were calling on them for ever, and therefore she seldom went near them.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
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