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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
(UK, military, nautical, historical) Of a Royal Navy warship in the Napoleonic Era: having 32–44 guns across one or two gun decks, a complement of 200–300, and weighing 700–1,450 tons burthen..
[A] great and ſtout Fleet before the Texel (and not as much as one of our Fourth or Fifth Rate-Frigats could follow them)[.]
Use fifth-rate when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Fifth-rate means (UK, military, nautical, historical) Of a Royal Navy warship in the Napoleonic Era: having 32–44 guns across one or two gun decks, a complement of 200–300, and weighing 700–1,450 tons burthen..
Common synonyms include dismal, horrible, rubbish, abysmal.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
[A] great and ſtout Fleet before the Texel (and not as much as one of our Fourth or Fifth Rate-Frigats could follow them)[.]
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