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second-rate
[ sek-uhnd-reyt ]
adjective
- of lesser or minor quality, importance, or the like:
a second-rate poet.
- inferior; mediocre:
a second-rate performance.
Synonyms: commonplace, pedestrian, undistinguished, inadequate, middling
second-rate
adjective
- not of the highest quality; mediocre
- second in importance, etc
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Derived Forms
- ˈsecond-ˈrater, noun
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Other Words From
- second-rateness noun
- second·rater noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of second-rate1
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Example Sentences
The place begins to feel like a second-rate Madame Tussauds.
At a certain point, the Christie staffers begin to sound like characters in a second-rate Tarantino script.
Or did the poor guy have to read a second-rate novel or a false-sounding biography in his last hours on earth?
I used to be obsessed with the second-rate films of Alfred Hitchcock.
When Smith phoned the American Embassy in Rome to ask for assistance, he says the couple was treated like second-rate citizens.
Down the block, his victim headed into a distinctly second-rate apartment hotel.
First off, it was one of those second-rate places that boasted no doorman.
They had already bought much of the best talent in the country, and they wasted no time on the second-rate.
I have seen men fall out and lose themselves among the army of crooks that throng the second-rate shows.
My only fear was that the gallery might mistake his rather second-rate people for gentlefolk.
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