Fifth-rate
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Fifth-rate is an adjective meaning (idiomatic, uncommon) Terrible, awful; less than fourth-rate.
Meaning
(idiomatic, uncommon) Terrible, awful; less than fourth-rate.
More Meanings
- (UK, military, nautical, historical) A fifth-rate warship.
- (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.
Example Sentences
[A] great and ſtout Fleet before the Texel (and not as much as one of our Fourth or Fifth Rate-Frigats could follow them)[.]
Word Forms
- fifth-rates
Synonyms for fifth-rate
Depending on context, synonyms include dismal, horrible, rubbish, abysmal, atrocious, bad.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include sixth-rate, third-rate, fourth-rate, second-rate, first-rate, heavy.
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