English Explanatory Dictionary

fifth-rate

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Of a Royal Navy warship in the Napoleonic Era: having 32–44 guns across one or two gun decks, a complement of 200–300, and weighing 700–1,450 tons burthen.
  2. Terrible, awful; less than fourth-rate.
noun
  1. A fifth-rate warship.

Word forms

fifth-rate fifth rate fifth-rates

Synonyms

dismal horrible rubbish abysmal atrocious awful bad chronic coarse corny crap crapalicious crappy crummy deityforsaken dire disagreeable dogshit dreadful fifth-rate foul fourth-rate godawful hellish hideous hopeless horrendous horrid horrific inadequate incompetent inelegant intolerable inferior lackluster loathsome lousy miserable naff negative odious ordinary pathetic peak piss-poor rotten shitawful shitty sixth-rate sloppy subpar terrible unfavorable wack

Related words

first-rate fourth-rate second-rate sixth-rate third-rate frigate great frigate
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