mediocre Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite moderate to inferior in quality
    second-rate.
    • they improved the quality from mediocre to above average
  2. adjective satellite lacking exceptional quality or ability
    middling; average; fair.
    • a novel of average merit
    • only a fair performance of the sonata
    • in fair health
    • the caliber of the students has gone from mediocre to above average
    • the performance was middling at best
  3. adjective satellite poor to middling in quality
    • there have been good and mediocre and bad artists

WordNet

Me"di*o`cre adjective
Etymology
F. médiocre, L. mediocris, fr. medius middle. See Mid.
Definitions
  1. Of a middle quality; of but a moderate or low degree of excellence; indifferent; ordinary. " A very mediocre poet." Pope.
Me"di*o`cre noun
Definitions
  1. A mediocre person. R.
  2. A young monk who was excused from performing a portion of a monk's duties. Shipley.

Webster 1913