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(UK, military, nautical, historical) Of a Royal Navy warship in the Napoleonic Era: having 20–28 guns on one gun deck, a complement of 140–200, and weighing 340–550 tons burthen..
The Navy classified warships by their number of cannons, and with twenty-eight, she was a sixth-rate–the lowest rank.
Use sixth-rate when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Sixth-rate means (UK, military, nautical, historical) Of a Royal Navy warship in the Napoleonic Era: having 20–28 guns on one gun deck, a complement of 140–200, and weighing 340–550 tons burthen..
Common synonyms include dismal, horrible, rubbish, abysmal.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
The Navy classified warships by their number of cannons, and with twenty-eight, she was a sixth-rate–the lowest rank.
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