Third-rate
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Third-rate is an adjective meaning (idiomatic) Poor, shoddy; less than second-rate.
Meaning
(idiomatic) Poor, shoddy; less than second-rate.
More Meanings
- (UK, military, nautical, historical) A third-rate ship of the line.
- (UK, military, nautical, historical) Of a Royal Navy ship of the line in the Napoleonic Era: having 64–80 guns across two gun decks, a complement of 500–650, and weighing approximately 1,750 tons burthen.
Example Sentences
I consider it to now be a third-rate service run without any excuses being offered.
He was smoking a cherry-wood pipe, and looked on the whole as if he had borrowed his outfit from the wardrobe of a third-rate dramatic company.
Word Forms
- third-rates
Synonyms for third-rate
Depending on context, synonyms include bad, lousy, third-class, ass, base, bottom-shelf.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include inferior, third-class, second-rate, first-rate, sixth-rate, fifth-rate.
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