mediocrity

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: me=di=oc=ri=ty

CIDE DICTIONARY

mediocrity, n. [F. médiocrité, L. mediocritas.].

•  The quality of being mediocre; a middle state or degree; a moderate degree or rate.  Bacon.  [1913 Webster]
•  Moderation; temperance.  Hooker.  [1913 Webster]
•  A mediocre person; -- used disparagingly.  [PJC]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

mediocrity, n. (pl. -ies)
1 the state of being mediocre.
2 a mediocre person or thing.

THESAURUS

mediocrity

Middle America, a nobody, a nothing, adulteration, average, balance, baseness, bourgeoisie, burgherdom, center, cipher, common man, defectibility, defectiveness, deficiency, dull tool, dummy, erroneousness, failure, fallibility, faultiness, fewness, figurehead, fourth-rater, generality, golden mean, greenhorn, happy medium, immaturity, impairment, imperfection, impurity, inability, inaccuracy, inadeptness, inadequacy, inadequateness, inaptitude, inaptness, inattentiveness, incapability, incapable, incapacity, incompetence, incompetency, incompetent, incompleteness, indexterity, ineffectiveness, ineffectuality, inefficiency, ineptness, inexactitude, inexactness, insignificancy, insufficiency, jackstraw, juste-milieu, lack, lightweight, little fellow, little guy, littleness, maladjustment, maladroitness, man of straw, mean, meanness, median, medium, middle, middle class, middle course, middle ground, middle order, middle orders, middle point, middle position, middle state, middle-of-the-road, midpoint, nebbish, no conjuror, no prize, nobody one knows, nobody special, nonentity, norm, normal, nothing special, obscurity, par, patchiness, pedestrianism, pettiness, pip-squeak, punk, rule, run, runt, rustiness, scrub, second-rater, shabbiness, shortage, shortcoming, shrimp, silent majority, sketchiness, skill-lessness, small beer, small fry, small potato, small potatoes, smallness, squirt, squit, subnormality, suburbia, third-rater, thoughtlessness, tinhorn, triviality, unaptness, uncleverness, undeftness, undevelopment, undexterousness, undextrousness, unevenness, unfitness, unfittedness, unintelligence, unperfectedness, unproficiency, unschooledness, unskillfulness, unsoundness, untrainedness, via media, vulgarity, want, whiffet, whippersnapper

ROGET THESAURUS

mediocrity

Sufficiency

N sufficiency, adequacy, enough, withal, satisfaction, competence, no less, quantum sufficit, Q, S, mediocrity, fill, fullness, plenitude, plenty, abundance, copiousness, amplitude, galore, lots, profusion, full measure, good measure pressed down and running, over, luxuriance, affluence, fat of the land, a land flowing with milk and honey, cornucopia, horn of plenty, horn of Amalthaea, mine, outpouring, flood, tide, repletion, satiety, sufficient, enough, adequate, up to the mark, commensurate, competent, satisfactory, valid, tangible, measured, moderate, full, ample, plenty, plentiful, plenteous, plenty as blackberries, copious, abundant, abounding, replete, enough and to spare, flush, choke-full, chock-full, well-stocked, well- provided, liberal, unstinted, unstinting, stintless, without stint, unsparing, unmeasured, lavish, wholesale, rich, luxuriant, affluent, wantless, big with, unexhausted, unwasted, exhaustless, inexhaustible, sufficiently, amply Adj, full, in abundance, with no sparing hand, to one's heart's content, ad libitum, without stint, cut and come again, das Beste ist gut genug.

Imperfection

N imperfection, imperfectness, deficiency, inadequacy, peccancy, immaturity, fault, defect, weak point, screw loose, flaw, gap, twist, taint, attainder, bar sinister, hole in one's coat, blemish, weakness, half blood, shortcoming, drawback, seamy side, mediocrity, no great shakes, no great catch, not much to boast of, one-horse shay, imperfect, not perfect, deficient, defective, faulty, unsound, tainted, out of order, out of tune, cracked, leaky, sprung, warped, lame, injured, peccant, frail, inadequate, crude, incomplete, found wanting, below par, short-handed, below its full strength, under its full strength, below its full complement, indifferent, middling, ordinary, mediocre, average, so-so, coucicouci, milk and water, tolerable, fair, passable, pretty well, pretty good, rather good, moderately good, good, good enough, well enough, adequate, decent, not bad, not amiss, inobjectionable, unobjectionable, admissible, bearable, only better than nothing, secondary, inferior, second-rate, second-best, one-horse, almost, to a limited extent, rather, pretty, moderately, passing, only, considering, all things considered, enough, surgit amari aliquid.

Mean

N mean, average, median, mode, balance, medium, mediocrity, generality, golden mean middle, compromise, middle course, middle state, neutrality, mediocrity, least common denominator, mean, intermediate, middle, average, neutral, mediocre, middle-class, commonplace, on an average, in the long run, taking one with another, taking all things together, taking it for all in all, communibus annis, in round numbers, medium tenuere beati, mean, average, median, mode, balance, medium, mediocrity, generality, golden mean middle, compromise, middle course, middle state, neutrality, mediocrity, least common denominator, mean, intermediate, middle, average, neutral, mediocre, middle-class, commonplace, on an average, in the long run, taking one with another, taking all things together, taking it for all in all, communibus annis, in round numbers, medium tenuere beati.

Smallness

N smallness, littleness, tenuity, paucity, fewness, meanness, insignificance (unimportance), mediocrity, moderation, small quantity, modicum, trace, hint, minimum, vanishing point, material point, atom, particle, molecule, corpuscle, point, speck, dot, mote, jot, iota, ace, minutiae, details, look, thought, idea, soupcon, dab, dight, whit, tittle, shade, shadow, spark, scintilla, gleam, touch, cast, grain, scruple, granule, globule, minim, sup, sip, sop, spice, drop, droplet, sprinkling, dash, morceau, screed, smack, tinge, tincture, inch, patch, scantling, tatter, cantlet, flitter, gobbet, mite, bit, morsel, crumb, seed, fritter, shive, snip, snippet, snick, snack, snatch, slip, scrag, chip, chipping, shiver, sliver, driblet, clipping, paring, shaving, hair, nutshell, thimbleful, spoonful, handful, capful, mouthful, fragment, fraction, drop in the ocean, animalcule, trifle, mere nothing, next to nothing, hardly anything, just enough to swear by, the shadow of a shade, finiteness, finite quantity, small, little, diminutive, minute, fine, inconsiderable, paltry, faint, slender, light, slight, scanty, scant, limited, meager, sparing, few, low, so-so, middling, tolerable, no great shakes, below par, under par, below the mark, at a low ebb, halfway, moderate, modest, tender, subtle, inappreciable, evanescent, infinitesimal, homeopathic, very small, atomic, corpuscular, microscopic, molecular, subatomic, mere, simple, sheer, stark, bare, near run, dull, petty, shallow, stolid, ungifted, unintelligent, to a small extent, on a small scale, a little bit, a wee bit, slightly, imperceptibly, miserably, wretchedly, insufficiently, imperfectly, faintly, passably, pretty well, well enough, partially, in part, in a certain degree, to a certain degree, to a certain extent, comparatively, some, rather in some degree, in some measure, something, somewhat, simply, only, purely, merely, at least, at the least, at most, at the most, ever so little, as little as may be, tant soit peu, in ever so small a degree, thus far, pro tanto, within bounds, in a manner, after a fashion, so to speak, almost, nearly, well-nigh, short of, not quite, all but, near upon, close upon, peu s'en faut, near the mark, within an ace of, within an inch of, on the brink of, scarcely, hardly, barely, only just, no more than, about, thereabouts, somewhere about, nearly, say, be the same, be little more or less, no ways, no way, no wise, not at all, not in the least, not a bit, not a bit of it, not a whit, not a jot, not a shadow, in no wise, in no respect, by no means, by no manner of means, on no account, at no hand, dare pondus idonea fumo, magno conatu magnas nugas, small sands the mountain, moments make the year.

Mediocrity

N mediocrity, moderate circumstances, average circumstances, respectability, middle classes, mediocrity, golden mean, mediocrity, moderate circumstances, average circumstances, respectability, middle classes, mediocrity, golden mean.