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third-rate Definition

third·-rate (-rāt)

adjective

  1. third in quality or other rating; third-class
  2. inferior; very poor

third-rate Related Forms
third·-rater noun
third-rate Usage Examples

Modifies a noun

  • power: It isn't that I doubt the ability of America's fighting forces to take out a third-rate power like Saddam Hussein's Iraq.
  • actor: One day, someone will make a fabulous movie about third-rate actors in Hollywood.
  • novel: I have written a goodly number of candidly speaking third-rate novels, which have been fairly remunerative here, and fairly read in America.
  • copy: The group is a third-rate copy of Scala, performing modern repertoire in a choral setting.
  • version: It exposes ' American Idiot ' as nothing more than the third-rate version of ' Suspect Device ' that it is.
  • man: The third-rate great man is superior to other men, like Whistler.
third-rate Quotes

If Richard Nixon was second-rate, what in the world is third-rate?

—Heller,Joseph