so-so Meaning, Definition & Usage

adjective satellite being neither good nor bad
indifferent.
- 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
adverb in an acceptable (but not outstanding) manner
tolerably; acceptably.
- she plays tennis tolerably

So + so.

Neither very good nor very bad; middling; passable; tolerable; indifferent.
In some Irish houses, where things are so-so, One gammon of bacon hangs up for a show. Goldsmith.

He [Burns] certainly wrote some so-so verses to the Tree of Liberty. Prof. Wilson.