second-rate Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite moderate to inferior in quality
    mediocre.
    • they improved the quality from mediocre to above average

WordNet

Sec"ond-rate` adjective
Definitions
  1. Of the second size, rank, quality, or value; as, a second-rate ship; second-rate cloth; a second-rate champion. Dryden.

Webster 1913