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Fourth-rate

Definition & Meaning

Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Fourth-rate is an adjective meaning (idiomatic, uncommon) Terrible, awful; less than third-rate.

Meaning

(idiomatic, uncommon) Terrible, awful; less than third-rate.

More Meanings

  1. (UK, military, nautical, historical) A fourth-rate ship of the line.
  2. (UK, military, nautical, historical) Of a Royal Navy ship of the line in the Napoleonic Era: having 50–60 guns across two gun decks, a complement of 320–420, and weighing approximately 1,000 tons burthen.

Word Forms

Synonyms for fourth-rate

Depending on context, synonyms include dismal, horrible, rubbish, abysmal, atrocious, bad.

dismalhorriblerubbishabysmalatrociousbadchroniccoarsecornycrapcrapaliciouscrappycrummydeityforsakendiredisagreeabledogshitdreadfulfifth-ratefoulgodawfulhellishhideoushopelesshorrendoushorridhorrificinadequate

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include third-rate, fifth-rate, sixth-rate, second-rate, first-rate, quadruple-masted.

third-ratefifth-ratesixth-ratesecond-ratefirst-ratequadruple-mastedheavyroyalflankfull-riggedaburton

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