fifth-rate en · ADJ
Meanings
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(UK, historical, not-comparable) Of a Royal Navy warship in the Napoleonic Era: having 32–44 guns across one or two gun decks, a complement of 200–300, and weighing 700–1,450 tons burthen.
[A] great and ſtout Fleet before the Texel (and not as much as one of our Fourth or Fifth Rate-Frigats could follow them)[.]
1677, Andrew Yarranton, England's improvement by sea and land, London: R. Everingham, page 96:
- (idiomatic, not-comparable, uncommon) Terrible, awful; less than fourth-rate.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| fifth rate | alternative | lexicographic |
Relateds
first-rate · second-rate · sixth-rate · third-rate · fourth-rate
Synonyms
corny · lackluster · peak · hideous · horrible · horrific · atrocious · godawful · bad · crapalicious · disagreeable · terrible · crappy · rubbish · incompetent · fifth-rate · inferior · crummy · coarse · unfavorable · pathetic · rubbish · hellish · foul · dogshit · horrendous · subpar · fourth-rate · hopeless · naff · lousy · deityforsaken · wack · inadequate · sloppy · horrible · dreadful · sixth-rate · ordinary · awful · crap · dire · negative · intolerable · abysmal · inelegant · shitawful · chronic · odious · dismal · loathsome · dismal · piss-poor · shitty · miserable · rotten · horrid