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посредственный

adj.
stresses
gen. middling; mediocre (not very good or great; ordinary); passable; moderate (workmanship of moderate quality); indifferent (not very good • He is a rather indifferent card-player); 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 (quite good; neither bad nor good • Her work is only 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); mundane (firefly_s); run-of-the-mill
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); mid (That is a perfect ending to an album that turned out to be, quite frankly, quite mid Ремедиос_П)
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
посредственно adv.
gen. satisfactory; any which way; so-so; commonly (Азери); mediately; moderately; tolerably; not particularly well; “mediocre” (school grade); respectably; meanly; middlingly; fair (оценка); nothing out of the common
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)
посредственный
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