English Explanatory Dictionary

sixth-rate

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Of a Royal Navy warship in the Napoleonic Era: having 20–28 guns on one gun deck, a complement of 140–200, and weighing 340–550 tons burthen.
  2. Terrible, awful; less than fifth-rate.
noun
  1. A sixth-rate warship.

Word forms

sixth-rate sixth rate sixth-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

fifth-rate first-rate fourth-rate second-rate third-rate frigate post ship
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