Main entry: mediocre
Definition: poor to middling in quality
Usage: there have been good and mediocre and bad artists
Main entry: average, fair, mediocre, middling
Definition: lacking exceptional quality or ability
Usage: 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
Main entry: mediocre, second-rate
Definition: moderate to inferior in quality
Usage: they improved the quality from mediocre to above average