mediocrity

1 ordinariness as a consequence of being average and not outstanding [syn: averageness]

2 a person of second-rate ability or value; "a team of aging second-raters"; "shone among the mediocrities who surrounded him" [syn: second-rater]

English

Noun

1. The condition of being mediocre.
2. An individual who is mediocre.

Translations

Middle America, a nobody, a nothing, adulteration, average, balance, baseness, bourgeoisie, burgherdom, center, cipher, common man, defectibility, defectiveness, deficiency, dull tool, dummy, erroneousness, failure, fallibility, faultiness, fewness, figurehead, fourth-rater, generality, golden mean, greenhorn, happy medium, immaturity, impairment, imperfection, impurity, inability, inaccuracy, inadeptness, inadequacy, inadequateness, inaptitude, inaptness, inattentiveness, incapability, incapable, incapacity, incompetence, incompetency, incompetent, incompleteness, indexterity, ineffectiveness, ineffectuality, inefficiency, ineptness, inexactitude, inexactness, insignificancy, insufficiency, jackstraw, juste-milieu, lack, lightweight, little fellow, little guy, littleness, maladjustment, maladroitness, man of straw, mean, meanness, median, medium, middle, middle class, middle course, middle ground, middle order, middle orders, middle point, middle position, middle state, middle-of-the-road, midpoint, nebbish, no conjuror, no prize, nobody one knows, nobody special, nonentity, norm, normal, nothing special, obscurity, par, patchiness, pedestrianism, pettiness, pip-squeak, punk, rule, run, runt, rustiness, scrub, second-rater, shabbiness, shortage, shortcoming, shrimp, silent majority, sketchiness, skill-lessness, small beer, small fry, small potato, small potatoes, smallness, squirt, squit, subnormality, suburbia, third-rater, thoughtlessness, tinhorn, triviality, unaptness, uncleverness, undeftness, undevelopment, undexterousness, undextrousness, unevenness, unfitness, unfittedness, unintelligence, unperfectedness, unproficiency, unschooledness, unskillfulness, unsoundness, untrainedness, via media, vulgarity, want, whiffet, whippersnapper