mediocrity

Noun

Meaning

The quality of being mediocre; a middle state or degree; a moderate degree or rate.

Moderation; temperance.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

second-rater averageness center centre average norm pygmy meanness mean middle nothing medium balance median poverty

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Antonyms

eminence quality big wheel big fish leader BIG

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Hypernyms

person individual soul mortal somebody someone

Related terms

mean medium median mediation mediator mediate

Phrases with the word

golden mediocrity

Anagrams

iridectomy

Examples

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius. Arthur Conan Doyle

Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them. Joseph Heller

Good behavior is the last refuge of mediocrity. Henry S. Haskins

One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me. Harriet Beecher Stowe

Mediocrity is climbing molehills without sweating. Icelandic Proverb

To the mediocre, mediocrity appears great. Hindi Proverb

Close letter words and terms

mediocritist mediocritization mediocritize mediocrity principle mediocubital mediodistal