English Explanatory Dictionary

fourth-rate

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Of a Royal Navy ship of the line in the Napoleonic Era: having 50–60 guns across two gun decks, a complement of 320–420, and weighing approximately 1,000 tons burthen.
  2. Terrible, awful; less than third-rate.
noun
  1. A fourth-rate ship of the line.

Word forms

fourth-rate fourth rate fourth-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 ass base below par bottom-shelf BTEC bum

Related words

fifth-rate first-rate second-rate sixth-rate third-rate two-decker
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