'Mediocrity' definitions:
Definition of 'mediocrity'
(from WordNet)
noun
Ordinariness as a consequence of being average and not outstanding [syn: averageness, mediocrity]
noun
A person of second-rate ability or value; "a team of aging second-raters"; "shone among the mediocrities who surrounded him" [syn: second-rater, mediocrity]
Definition of 'Mediocrity'
From: GCIDE
- Mediocrity \Me`di*oc"ri*ty\, n. [F. m['e]diocrit['e], L. mediocritas.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. The quality of being mediocre; a middle state or degree; a moderate degree or rate. "A mediocrity of success." --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Moderation; temperance. [Obs.] --Hooker. [1913 Webster]
- 3. A mediocre person; -- used disparagingly. [PJC]
Synonyms of 'mediocrity'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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 America,
- 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