Low-grade

Quick meaning: Low-grade is an adjective meaning Of inferior quality.

Meaning

Of inferior quality.

More Meanings

1. (medicine, pathology) Minor.

Example Sentences

Clinical Presentation Patients with septic arthritis or osteomyelitis classically present acutely with localized pain and swelling, joint stiffness, low-grade fever, chills, anorexia, and malaise.

These studies have identified a novel role for MLKL in aging, revealing a delay in the age-related reduction in circulating lymphocytes and a protection from chronic, low-grade, sterile inflammation in female Mlkl^(–/–) aged mice.

Elevated cytokine levels in chronic viral infections are attributed to a number of stimuli. In HIV infection, chronic activation has been linked to ongoing low-grade viral replication, presence of opportunistic infections, and microbial translocation.

Were the possibilities of improving the efficiency of British Railways' steam locomotives by making the best use of the reasonably satisfactory low-grade lump coal available today, and thereby saving more high-grade locomotive coal, borne in mind when it was decided to go ahead rapidly with replacement of steam traction?

Word Forms

• lower-grade
• lowest-grade
• lowgrade
• lower grade
• lowest grade

Synonyms for low-grade

Depending on context, synonyms include lousy, low-rent, second-rate, ass, bad, base.

Antonyms for low-grade

Common opposites include high-grade.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include inferior, low-end, shoddy, substandard, little, low.

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