'So-so' definitions:

Definition of 'so-so'

adverb

In an acceptable (but not outstanding) manner; "she plays tennis tolerably" [syn: acceptably, tolerably, so- so] [ant: intolerably, unacceptably]

adjective

Being neither good nor bad; "an indifferent performance"; "a gifted painter but an indifferent actor"; "her work at the office is passable"; "a so-so golfer"; "feeling only so-so"; "prepared a tolerable dinner"; "a tolerable working knowledge of French" [syn: indifferent, so- so(p)]

Definition of 'So-so'

From: GCIDE

So-so \So"-so`\, a. [So + so.] Neither very good nor very bad; middling; passable; tolerable; indifferent. [1913 Webster]
In some Irish houses, where things are so-so, One gammon of bacon hangs up for a show. --Goldsmith. [1913 Webster]
He [Burns] certainly wrote some so-so verses to the Tree of Liberty. --Prof. Wilson. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'So-so'

From: GCIDE

So-so \So"-so`\, adv. Tolerably; passably. --H. James. [1913 Webster]