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so-soish

so-soish adjective: thoroughly unimpressive; mediocre.

Adjective

so-soish (not comparable)

  1. Thoroughly unimpressive; mediocre.
    • […] being one of very great merit and beauty, which, to say the truth, is more than we dare affirm of any of those we here notice, for they strike us as being of a very so-soish character.1840, William Laxton, The Civil engineer and architect's journal: Volume 3, page 188

Origin of so-soish

From so-so + -ish.

Questions about so-soish

What does so-soish mean?
So-soish means thoroughly unimpressive; mediocre.
What part of speech is so-soish?
So-soish is an adjective.

Words near so-soish in the dictionary

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