second-rate
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second-rate
adjective second rate
- Of a Royal Navy ship of the line in the Napoleonic Era: having 80–98 guns across three gun decks, a complement of 700–750, and weighing approximately 2,200 tons burthen.
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Of mediocre quality; not first-rate.
‘Revelation’, to a philosopher such as Plotinus, was not merely irrational: it led to second-rate counterfeits of traditional academic philosophical culture. It was as if the inhabitants of an underdeveloped country were to seek to catch up with western technology by claiming to have learnt nuclear
Similar: inferior, medium-quality, second-class, ass, bad, base, below par, bottom-shelf, BTEC, bum, cheap, cheap and nasty
noun second-rates · second rate
- A second-rate ship of the line.
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adj of mediocre quality
| Español | de baja estofa, de chichinabo, de pacotilla, de tres al cuarto, segundón |
|---|---|
| 日本語 | 二流 niryū |
| 中文 | 二流 èrliú |
| Français | de second ordre, de second rang |
| Italiano | scadente |
| Русский | второсортный vtorosortnyj |
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