Mediocrity

Noun

 * 1)  The quality of being intermediate between two extremes; a mean.
 * 2)  A middle course of action; moderation, balance.
 * 3) *1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, New York Review Books 2001, p. 273:
 * In adversity I wish for prosperity, and in prosperity I am afraid of adversity. What mediocrity may be found?
 * 1)  The condition of being mediocre; having only an average degree of quality, skills etc.; no better than standard.
 * 2) An individual with mediocre abilities or achievements.

Related terms

 * mean
 * medium
 * mediate
 * mediation
 * mediator
 * median
 * mediocre

Adjectives for Mediocrity
solemn; witless; practiced; superlative.

Verbs for Mediocrity
allow—; approve—; attain—; avoid—; condemn—; cringe in—; criticize—; disparage —; lift from—; respect—; —begets; —endures; —eclipses; —perseveres; —starves; —subjugates; —succeeds.

Thesaurus
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

Etymology
From mediocritas:, from mediocris:.

Translations

 * Croatian: ,
 * Czech:
 * Greek:


 * Macedonian: медиокритет, просечност
 * Russian: посредственность, заурядность
 * Spanish:

Anagrams

 * iridectomy