| Main Entry: | common |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | low, coarse |
Synonyms: |
Philistine, baseborn, characterless, cheap, colorless, crass, declassé, hack, hackneyed, impure, inferior, low-grade, mean, middling, nondescript, passable, pedestrian, plebeian, poor, prosy, raffish, second-class, second-rate, shoddy, sleazy, stale, trite, undistinguished, vulgar |
| Notes: | mutual applies to reciprocal relationships between two or more things; if something is held in common, use 'common' instead |
Antonyms: |
aristocratic, cultured, excellent, high, noble, refined, sophisticated, superior |
| Main Entry: | inferior |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | poor, second-rate |
Synonyms: |
average, bad, base, common, déclassé, fair, good-for-nothing, hack*, imperfect, indifferent, junk*, lemon, lousy, low-grade, low-rent, mean, mediocre, middling, ordinary, paltry, poorer, sad, second-class, sorry*, substandard, tawdry, two-bit, worse, wretched |
| Main Entry: | lower |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | under, inferior |
Synonyms: |
bush-league, curtailed, decreased, diminished, junior, lessened, lesser, low, lower rung, minor, nether, pared down, reduced, second-class, second-fiddle, second-string, secondary, smaller, subjacent, subordinate, under |
Antonyms: |
higher, important, superior |
| Main Entry: | mean |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | poor; of or in inferior circumstances |
Synonyms: |
base, beggarly, common, contemptible, down-at-heel, déclassé, hack, humble, ignoble, ineffectual, inferior, insignificant, limited, low, lowborn, lowly, mediocre, menial, miserable, modest, narrow, obscure, ordinary, paltry, petty, pitiful, plebeian, proletarian, run-down, scruffy, second-class, second-rate, seedy, servile, shabby*, sordid, squalid, tawdry, undistinguished, unwashed, vulgar, wretched |
| Main Entry: | private |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lowest rank of person enlisted in armed service |
Synonyms: |
GI, enlisted person, first-class*, infantry, private soldier, sailor, second-class, soldier |
| Main Entry: | second-rate/second-class |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | inferior, cheap |
Synonyms: |
cheap and dirty, common, commonplace, déclassé, hack*, low-grade, low-quality, mean, mediocre, poor, shoddy*, substandard, tacky*, tawdry |
Antonyms: |
excellent, first-class, first-rate, great, superior, wonderful |
| Main Entry: | second-rate |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | mediocre |
Synonyms: |
below par, cheap, crummy, deficient, inadequate, inferior, low-grade, poor, rotten*, second-best, second-class, shabby, shoddy, substandard, unacceptable, unsatisfactory |
Antonyms: |
excellent, first-rate, superior |
| Main Entry: | low-grade |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | inferior |
Synonyms: |
average, bad, base, common, déclassé, fair, good-for-nothing, hack*, imperfect, indifferent, junk*, lemon, lousy, low-quality, low-rent, mean, mediocre, middling, ordinary, paltry, poorer, sad, second-class, second-rate, shabby, sorry*, substandard, tawdry, two-bit, worse, wretched |
| Main Entry: | low-quality |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | inferior |
Synonyms: |
average, bad, base, common, déclassé, fair, good-for-nothing, hack*, imperfect, indifferent, junk*, lemon, lousy, low-grade, low-rent, mean, mediocre, middling, ordinary, paltry, poorer, sad, second-class, second-rate, shabby, sorry*, substandard, tawdry, two-bit, worse, wretched |
| Main Entry: | second-class |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | inferior |
Synonyms: |
average, bad*, base, common, déclassé, fair, good-for-nothing, hack*, imperfect, indifferent, junk*, lemon, lousy, low-grade, low-quality, low-rent, mean, mediocre, middling, ordinary, paltry, poorer, sad, second-rate, shabby, sorry*, substandard, tawdry, two-bit, worse, wretched |