second-class
niveau
inferior
subclass
low-level
subordinate
last
white belt
year
midlevel
subpremium
subcollegiate
A
A−
D−
down
last-place
lowest
C−
midranking
A minus
beta
notch
bottom
midgrade
subvariety
A*
A1
grading
minus
for
A-2
unstandard
superfine
F
outclassed
below
submarginal
subterclass
unlevelness
second class
A++
relegation
rank
suffer by comparison
least
first class
bad
F+
cume
G
ungradedness
shitty
caliber
quality
calibre
undergrade
B−
C+
fail
coordinate
underscorer
outrank
hardscrabble
choice
select
belowness
submaximum
subprimary
first water
short
ranking
errant
prize
reduce
rankless
prime
secondary
underjudge
bush league
off
something
superordinate
falling
grunt-level
higher-up
superior
downlevel
pass muster
suboptimum
underlevel
unfit
second-class
inferior
low-level
subordinate
last
midlevel
subpremium
subcollegiate
down
last-place
lowest
midranking
bottom
midgrade
A1
minus
A-2
unstandard
superfine
outclassed
submarginal
bad
shitty
coordinate
quality
hardscrabble
choice
select
subprimary
short
ranking
errant
prize
rankless
prime
secondary
off
falling
grunt-level
unfit
least
niveau
subclass
white belt
year
A−
D−
C−
inferior
A minus
beta
notch
subvariety
A*
grading
F
subterclass
unlevelness
second class
A++
relegation
first class
F+
cume
G
ungradedness
caliber
quality
calibre
B−
C+
underscorer
belowness
submaximum
first water
bush league
superordinate
higher-up
superior
downlevel
suboptimum
underlevel
rank
suffer by comparison
undergrade
fail
outrank
reduce
underjudge
pass muster
adj
- Of low rank, standard or quality.
- Lower in rank, status, or quality.
- Nearer to the Sun than the Earth is.
- (of a court or tribunal) Susceptible to having its decisions overturned by a higher court.
- On the side of a flower which is next to the bract.
- Situated further below (another part of the body), a direction that in humans corresponds to caudad.
- Situated in a relatively low posterior or ventral position in a quadrupedal body.
- Situated below some other organ (said of a calyx when free from the ovary, and therefore below it, or of an ovary with an adherent and therefore inferior calyx).
- Denoting goods or services which are in greater demand during a recession than in a boom, for example second-hand clothes.
- Below the horizon.
- Printed in subscript.
noun
adj
- Lowest in rank or degree.
- Being the only one remaining of its class.
- Farthest of all from a given quality, character, or condition; most unlikely, or least preferable.
- Supreme; highest in degree; utmost.
- Most recent, latest, last so far.
- Final, ultimate, coming after all others of its kind.
noun
- A tool for shaping or preserving the shape of shoes.
- A load of some commodity with reference to its weight and commercial value.
det
- The (one) immediately before the present.
- Closest in the past, or closest but one if the closest was very recent; of days, sometimes thought to specifically refer to the instance closest to seven days (one week) ago, or the most recent instance before seven days (one week) ago.
adv
verb
noun
- A level or grade in school or college.
- A Julian year, exactly 365.25 days, represented by "a".
- The proportion of a creature's lifespan equivalent to one year of an average human lifespan (see also dog year).
- A period between set dates that mark a year, from January 1 to December 31 by the Gregorian calendar, from Tishiri 1 to Elul 29 by the Jewish calendar, and from Muharram 1 to Dhu al-Hijjah 29 or 30 by the Islamic calendar.
- A scheduled part of a calendar year spent in a specific activity.
- A solar year, the time it takes the Earth to complete one revolution of the Sun (between 365.24 and 365.26 days depending on the point of reference).
- The time it takes for any astronomical object (such as a planet, dwarf planet, small Solar System body, or comet) in direct orbit around a star (such as the Sun) to make one revolution around the star.
symbol
- The highest letter grade assigned (disregarding plusses and minuses).
- Mass number.
- A universal affirmative suggestion.
- A rank, normally the highest rank, on any of various scales that assign letters.
- Allele dominant.
- A tone three fifths above C in the cycle of fifths; the sixth tone of the C major scale; the first note of the minor scale of A minor; the reference tone that occurs at exactly 440 Hz; the printed or written note A; the scale with A as its keynote.
- A blood type that has a specific antigen that aggravates the immune response in people with type B antigen in their blood. People with this blood type may receive blood from type A or type O but cannot receive blood from AB or B.
character
adj
noun
adj
- At a lower level than before.
- Sad, unhappy, depressed, feeling low.
- Mechanically failed, collided, shot down, or otherwise suddenly unable to fly.
- Having a lower score than an opponent.
- Sick or ill.
- Negative about; hostile to.
- Comfortable with, accepting of.
- Wounded and unable to move normally, or killed.
- Facing downwards.
- Fallen or felled.
- Accepted, respected, or loyally participating in the (thug) community.
- Finished (of a task); defeated or dealt with (of an opponent or obstacle); elapsed (of time). Often coupled with to go (remaining).
- Out.
- Thoroughly practiced, learned or memorised; mastered. (Compare down pat.)
- Inoperable; out of order; out of service.
prep
- From one end to another of (in any direction); along.
- From the higher end to the lower of.
- At (a given place that is seen as removed from one's present location or other point of reference).
- From north to south of.
adv
- At or towards any place that is visualised as 'down' by virtue of local features or local convention, or arbitrarily, irrespective of direction or elevation change.
- So as to reduce size, weight or volume.
- From less to greater detail.
- So as to lessen quantity, level or intensity.
- Forward, straight ahead.
- In the direction leading away from the principal terminus, away from milepost zero.
- To the south (as south is at the bottom of typical maps).
- From a higher position to a lower one; downwards.
- At a lower or further place or position along a set path.
- As a down payment.
- On paper (or in a durable record).
- Get down.
- Into a state of non-operation.
- To a subordinate or less prestigious position or rank.
- Towards the opponent's side (in ball-sports).
- Away from the city (regardless of direction).
- Used with verbs to indicate that the action of the verb was carried to some state of completion, permanence, or success rather than being of indefinite duration.
- From a remoter or higher antiquity.
- So as to secure or compress something to the floor, ground, or other (usually horizontal) surface.
verb
- To disparage; to put down.
- To drink or swallow, especially without stopping before the vessel containing the liquid is empty.
- To knock (someone or something) down; to cause to come down; to fell.
- Specifically, to cause (something in the air) to fall to the ground; to bring down (with a missile etc.).
- To render (the ball) dead, typically by touching the ground while in possession.
- To lower; to put (something) down.
- To defeat; to overpower.
- To sink (a ball) into a hole or pocket.
- To cover, ornament, line, or stuff with down.
noun
- The pubescence of plants; the hairy crown or envelope of the seeds of certain plants, such as the thistle.
- That which is made of down, as a bed or pillow; that which affords ease and repose, like a bed of down.
- Down payment.
- A hill, especially a chalk hill; rolling grassland
- A tract of poor, sandy, undulating or hilly land near the sea, covered with fine turf which serves chiefly for the grazing of sheep.
- Soft, fluffy immature feathers which grow on young birds. Used as insulating material in duvets, sleeping bags and jackets.
- The soft hair of the face when beginning to appear.
- An act of swallowing an entire drink at once.
- A negative aspect; a downer, a downside.
- A clue whose solution runs vertically in the grid.
- A downstairs room of a two-story house.
- The lightest quark with a charge number of −¹⁄₃.
- A field, especially one used for horse racing.
- A single play, from the time the ball is snapped (the start) to the time the whistle is blown (the end) when the ball is down, or is downed.
noun
- An academic grade better than a gamma and worse than an alpha.
- Software in such a phase; a preliminary version.
- The phase of development after alpha testing and before launch, in which software, while not complete, has been released to potential users for testing.
- Information about a route which may aid someone in climbing it.
- Sideslip angle.
- The second letter of the Greek alphabet (Β, β), preceded by alpha (Α, α) and followed by gamma, (Γ, γ). In modern Greek it represents the voiced labiodental fricative sound of v found in the English words have and vase.
- Average sensitivity of a security's price to overall securities market prices.
- The range of engine power settings in which the blade pitch angle of a constant-speed propeller is controlled directly by the angle of the engine's throttle lever (rather than varying with engine torque and airspeed to maintain a constant propeller RPM), allowing the propeller to be disked to generate high drag and slow the aircraft quickly.
- A beta particle or beta ray.
- In omegaverse fiction, a person of a secondary sex similar to normal humans, lacking the biological drives of alphas and omegas but generally capable of bonding and mating with either.
adj
- Identifying a molecular position in an organic chemical compound.
- Designates the second in an order of precedence.
- Preliminary; prerelease. Refers to an incomplete version of a product released for initial testing.
- Associated with the beta male/female archetype.
verb
prep
- By the standards of, usually with the implication that those standards are lower than one might otherwise expect; considering.
- Due or facing (a certain outcome or fate).
- Used in various more-or-less idiomatic ways to construe individual verbs, indicating various semantic relationships such as target, purpose, result, etc.; see also the entries for individual phrasal verbs, e.g. ask for, look for, stand for, etc.
- In order to obtain or acquire.
- Towards; in the direction of.
- Intended to cure, remove or counteract; in order to cure, remove or counteract.
- So (that), in order to
- On behalf of.
- Used to introduce a subject within a to-infinitive clause.
- In the role or capacity of; instead of; in place of.
- To be used or treated in a stated way, or with a stated purpose.
- Because of.
- Over (a period of time).
- To be, or as being.
- Used as part of a score to indicate the number of wickets that have fallen.
- Supporting, in favour of.
- In order to help, benefit, gratify, honor etc. (someone or something).
- Introducing the first item(s) in a potential sequence.
- In exchange for; in correspondence or equivalence with.
- In honor of; after.
- Out of; used to indicate a fraction, a ratio
- Indicating something desired or anticipated.
- Despite, in spite of.
- Directed at; intended to belong to.
- Throughout or across (a distance in space).
conj
particle
noun
- A grade lower than E but higher than G.
- A failing grade, with the next best grade being either a D or an E (some institutions issue Es instead of Fs).
- In the American Library Association, a folio-sized book, over 30 cm in height.
- The Fertility factor (bacteria).
- A grade of black-lead pencil (originally an abbreviation of fine).
character
symbol
- The fourth note of the diatonic scale of C major, called fa in solfège.
- The scale or key which has that note for its tonic.
- On a piano keyboard, the white key next to the left of each group of three black keys (see figure).
- The degree of a staff assigned to such a key or tone; a note on such a degree.
- Ford Motor Company
intj
verb
- To take rank of; to outrank.
- To have a ranking.
- To place abreast, or in a line.
- To assign a suitable place in a class or order; to classify.
adj
- Strong in growth; growing with vigour or rapidity, hence, coarse or gross.
- Complete, used as an intensifier (usually negative, referring to incompetence).
- Strong to the senses; offensive; noisome.
- Having a very strong and bad taste or odor.
- Causing strong growth; producing luxuriantly; rich and fertile.
- Suffering from overgrowth or hypertrophy; plethoric.
- Strong of its kind or in character; unmitigated; virulent; thorough; utter (used of negative things).
- Gross, disgusting.
noun
- A hierarchical level in an organization such as the military.
- One of the eight horizontal lines of squares on a chessboard (i.e., those identified by a number).
- The maximal number of linearly independent columns (or rows) of a matrix.
- The maximum quantity of D-linearly independent elements of a module (over an integral domain D).
- The size of any basis of a given matroid.
- One's position in a list sorted by a shared property such as physical location, population, or quality.
- The level of one's position in a class-based society.
- The dimensionality of an array (computing) or tensor.
- In a pipe organ, a set of pipes of a certain quality for which each pipe corresponds to one key or pedal.
- A level in a scientific taxonomy system.
- A category of people, such as those who share an occupation or belong to an organisation.
- A row of people or things organized in a grid pattern, often soldiers.
adv
- In the smallest or lowest degree; in a degree below all others.
- Used for forming superlatives of adjectives, especially those that do not form the superlative by adding -est.
det
prep_phrase
- At least.
- What a stupid white privileged POS I am! Least I call myself out.
- 2019 December, Justin Blackburn, The Bisexual Christian Suburban Failure Enlightening Bipolar Blues, page 79
noun
adj
- below average in quality or performance
- serious or severe
- feeling physical discomfort or pain (`tough' is occasionally used colloquially for `bad')
- (of foodstuffs) not in an edible or usable condition
- not capable of being collected
- nonstandard
- not financially safe or secure
- physically unsound or diseased
- capable of harming
- characterized by wickedness or immorality
- reproduced fraudulently
- not working properly
adv
adj
- having undesirable or negative qualities
- feeling or expressing regret or sorrow or a sense of loss over something done or undone
noun
noun
- The academic grade that comes next below F.
- gravity
- Green.
- A gangster; often used to address one's friend.
- Ground floor (of a building).
- Grand (thousand dollars).
- Goals (a sports statistic).
- Games (the statistic reporting the number of games that a player has participated in).
- General (suitable for a general audience).
- A galaxy.
- Abbreviation for Government Spending.
character
noun
- a degree or grade of excellence or worth
- an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone
- a characteristic property that defines the apparent individual nature of something
- (music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound)
- high social status
adj
verb
- To receive one or more non-passing grades in academic pursuits.
- Not to achieve a particular stated goal. (Usage note: The direct object of this word is usually an infinitive.)
- To become unable to meet one's engagements; especially, to be unable to pay one's debts or discharge one's business obligation; to become bankrupt or insolvent.
- To give a student a non-passing grade in an academic endeavour.
- To be wanting to, to be insufficient for, to disappoint, to desert; to disappoint one's expectations.
- To be wanting; to fall short; to be or become deficient in any measure or degree up to total absence.
- To neglect.
- To be unsuccessful.
- Of a machine, etc.: to cease to operate correctly.
noun
- A failure, especially of a financial transaction (a termination of an action).
- A failure (condition of being unsuccessful).
- A failing grade in an academic examination.
- Poor quality; substandard workmanship.
- A failure (something incapable of success).
- A piece of turf cut from grassland.
adj
adj
- Deficient; less; not coming up to a measure or standard.
- Abrupt; brief; pointed; petulant.
- bowled so that it bounces relatively far from the batsman.
- Of betting odds, offering a small return for the money wagered.
- Having little duration.
- that falls short of the green or the hole.
- Of comparatively small height.
- Limited in quantity; inadequate; insufficient; scanty.
- Of a word or phrase, constituting an abbreviation (for another) or shortened form (of another).
- Brittle, crumbly. (See shortbread, shortcake, shortcrust, shortening, hot short, cold-short.)
- that is relatively close to the batsman.
- Undiluted; neat.
- Having a small distance from one end or edge to another, either horizontally or vertically.
- Insufficiently provided; inadequately supplied, especially with money; scantily furnished; lacking.
- Being in a financial investment position that is structured to be profitable if the price of the underlying security declines in the future.
- Doubtful of, skeptical of.
adv
- Unawares.
- Abruptly, curtly, briefly.
- Without achieving a goal or requirement.
- With a negative ownership position.
- Relatively far from the batsman and hence bouncing higher than normal; opposite of full.
verb
- To shortchange.
- To provide with a smaller than agreed or labeled amount.
- To sell something, especially securities, that one does not own at the moment for delivery at a later date in hopes of profiting from a decline in the price; to sell short.
- To short circuit.
- To cause a short circuit in (something).
noun
- A short version of a garment in a particular size.
- A short sound, syllable, or vowel.
- A short film.
- A shortstop.
- A short seller.
- An automobile; especially in crack shorts, to break into automobiles.
- A short circuit.
- A short sale or short position.
- An integer variable having a smaller range than normal integers; usually two bytes long.
- A summary account.
prep
verb
- lower in grade or rank or force somebody into an undignified situation
- cut down on; make a reduction in
- make less complex
- bring to humbler or weaker state or condition
- simplify the form of a mathematical equation of expression by substituting one term for another
- be the essential element
- reduce in size; reduce physically
- lessen and make more modest
- make smaller
- to remove oxygen from a compound, or cause to react with hydrogen or form a hydride, or to undergo an increase in the number of electrons
- narrow or limit
- put down by force or intimidation
- undergo meiosis
- reposition (a broken bone after surgery) back to its normal site
- destress and thus weaken a sound when pronouncing it
- reduce in scope while retaining essential elements
- be cooked until very little liquid is left
- cook until very little liquid is left
- lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture
- take off weight
adj
adj
- of superior grade
- first in rank or degree
- used of the first or originating agent
- being at the best stage of development
noun
- a natural number that has exactly two distinct natural number divisors: 1 and itself
- the period of greatest prosperity or productivity
- the second canonical hour; about 6 a.m.
- the time of maturity when power and vigor are greatest
adj
verb
adj
- belonging to a lower class or rank
- inferior in rank or status
- depending on or incidental to what is original or primary
- not of major importance
noun
- the defensive football players who line up behind the linemen
- coil such that current is induced in it by passing a current through the primary coil
adj
adj
adj
verb
adv
pron
- A quality to a moderate degree.
- Somebody who or something that is superlative or notable in some way.
- An uncertain or unspecified thing; one thing.
- A talent or quality that is difficult to specify.
adv
verb
noun
- An object whose name is forgotten by, unknown or unimportant to the user, e.g., from words of a song. Also used to refer to an object earlier indefinitely referred to as 'something' (pronoun sense).
- An object whose nature is yet to be defined.
adj
noun
- one of greater rank or station or quality
- the head of a religious community
- a combatant who is able to defeat rivals
- a character or symbol set or printed or written above and immediately to one side of another character
adj
- (sometimes followed by `to') not subject to or influenced by
- having a higher rank
- (often followed by `to') above being affected or influenced by
adj
noun
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