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C-grade

C-grade adjective: not very good; mediocre, mid.

Adjective

C-grade (not generally comparable, comparative more C-grade, superlative most C-grade)

  1. (informal, not comparable, usually) Not very good; mediocre, mid.
    • Near-synonyms: second-rate, third-rate; see also Thesaurus:mediocre
    • […] Easter is April 20, and I have set an informal goal of having 50,000 words on paper by that date—not necessarily good words, mind you, just C-grade stuff that I can work with and refine during the revision process.2014 June 12, Justin Peters, “Dispatches From Book Leave, Part 2”, in Slate, archived from the original on 14 Apr 2019

Examples of C-grade in a sentence

  • It never figured out how to be more than a C-grade version of Google.2022 July 29, Linette Lopez, “It's official: Kim Kardashian and Kylie Jenner are smarter than Mark Zuckerberg”, in Business Insider, New...
  • But this is a return to the kind of C-grade cheapo actioneers that damaged his reputation in the first place.2023 April 28, Richard Whittaker, “The Best Man”, in The Austin Chronicle, Austin, T.X.: The Austin Chronicle Corporation, →ISSN, →OCLC...

Synonyms of C-grade

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Forms of C-grade

comparativemore C-grade
superlativemost C-grade

Origin of C-grade

From the "C" grade given to students who are not failing, but also not doing particularly well.

Questions about C-grade

What does C-grade mean?
C-grade means not very good; mediocre, mid.
How do you use C-grade in a sentence?
It never figured out how to be more than a C-grade version of Google.
What part of speech is C-grade?
C-grade is an adjective.

Words near C-grade in the dictionary

  1. C-Drama
  2. C-dramas
  3. c-flat
  4. C-flat major
  5. c-flats
  6. C-grade
  7. c-hole
  8. c-holes
  9. C-in-C
  10. C-in-Cs
  11. C-level

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