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gen. |
middling; mediocre; passable; moderate (ум, талант); indifferent; mean; ordinary; bush-league; mediocrity; so-so; of sorts (There was a garden of sorts below with those dismal box hedges the Parisians think smart.); decentish (Anglophile); bush league; ornery; unimpressive (pivoine); underwhelming (когда нужно подчеркнуть это качество Баян); narrow-minded; generic (essence); satisfactory (of school marks, etc); fair; petty; of a kind; conventional (VLZ_58); of a sort (VLZ_58); spotty (joyand); lacklustre (Taras); subpar (a subpar waitress Taras); mediate; respectable; slender; tolerable; lowly (lowly civil servant – посредственный служака bojestvo) |
Игорь Миг |
not-so-great; parochial; lackluster |
amer. |
fair to middling; sketchy (Her parenting skills were sketchy at best. joyand); flimsy (the movie is funny but flimsy Val_Ships) |
amer., inf. |
bush |
busin. |
average; moderate |
econ. |
moderate (напр., о качестве) |
fig. |
two-dimensional (Abysslooker) |
Gruzovik, ed. |
fair (of school marks, etc.); satisfactory (of school marks, etc.) |
idiom. |
drop out (Yeldar Azanbayev) |
inf. |
small-time (Andrey Truhachev); blup (ad_notam); lackluster (Val_Ships); patchy (VLZ_58); no great shakes (VLZ_58) |
law |
indirect (Andrey Truhachev) |
Makarov. |
tame |
obs. |
mediocral |
psychol. |
second-rate; undistinguished |
qual.cont. |
moderate (о качестве) |
robot. |
mean (о характеристике) |
slang |
ho-hum; no three-alarm fire; hokey; hoky; drop-out |
Игорь Миг, inf. |
not here nor there |
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gen. |
satisfactory; any which way; so-so; commonly (Азери); mediately; moderately; tolerably; not particularly well; “fair”; “mediocre” (school grade); respectably; meanly; middlingly |
arch., poetic |
fair |
Gruzovik, ed. |
fair (of school grade; indecl); satisfactory (of school grade; indecl) |
Makarov. |
indifferently |
obs. |
slenderly |
Игорь Миг, inf. |
passably (Сочинения писал посредственно, почерк ужасен, в математике соображал слабо (I wrote just passably, had terrible handwriting, and was weak in math. (Michele Berdy).20) |