Mediocrat
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Mediocrat is a noun meaning A politician or bureaucrat of mediocre ability.
Meaning
A politician or bureaucrat of mediocre ability.
More Meanings
- An advocate of mediocracy; one who prefers to avoid controversy, change and risk.
- An ordinary person with no special abilities; a mediocrity.
- A politician or leader from a middle-class background.
- (biology) A plant species that thrives in moderate conditions.
Example Sentences
Follow the big top, even if you're only one of the crowd, only a mediocrat, as Vesta says.
Perhaps this Utopia of the mediocrats is not so far off; perhaps it is time for the meritocracy to assert itself.
In India, men and women of talent, ability, honesty and integrity keep their distance from the politics of today. It is a game of mediocrats.
And our mediocrats are satisfied. Mediocrity is not, of course, a specifically modern sin; what is specifically modern is its overwhelming acceptance as the normal condition of humanity.
Word Forms
- mediocrats
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include mediocritist, mediocrist, mediacrat, politicaster, musicaster, undermediator.
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