English Explanatory Dictionary

third-rate

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Of a Royal Navy ship of the line in the Napoleonic Era: having 64–80 guns across two gun decks, a complement of 500–650, and weighing approximately 1,750 tons burthen.
  2. Poor, shoddy; less than second-rate.
noun
  1. A third-rate ship of the line.

Word forms

third-rate third rate third-rates

Synonyms

bad lousy third-class ass base below par bottom-shelf BTEC bum cheap cheap and nasty cheapshit cheesy chintzy coffee-and crap crappo crappy craptastic crapperific craptabulous craptacular cruddy crummy dogwater drecky flimsy fourth-rate gash garbage god-awful inferior low low-grade low-quality low-rent made in China mid naughty one-star poor poor man's pound-shop punk rinky-dink ropy rubbish sad schlocky scrubby second-rate shoddy slazy slight slim subpar shit shite shitty substandard

Related words

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