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second-rate (sek′ənd rāt′)
adjective
- second in quality, rank, etc.; second-class
- inferior; mediocre; inadequate
Related Forms:
- second-rateness sec′ond-rate′ness noun
- second-rater sec′ond-rat′er noun
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Modifies a noun
- service: A new generation of boats is sailing the Red Sea and there are no excuses for second-rate service.
Modifying Another Word
- very: His position as a man of wealth might make his alliance of value, but as a lover he was very second-rate.
Used with adjective complement
- feel: But, and I think this is the point I've been struggling to grasp, to me it feels second-rate, somehow.
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No man has come so near to our definition of a constitutional statesmanöthe powers of a first-rateman and the creed of a second-rate man.
If Richard Nixon was second-rate, what in the world is third-rate?
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