"fourth-rate" meaning in English

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Adjective

Forms: fourth rate [alternative]
Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} fourth-rate (not comparable)
  1. (UK, military, nautical, historical) Of a Royal Navy ship of the line in the Napoleonic Era: having 50–60 guns across two gun decks, a complement of 320–420, and weighing approximately 1,000 tons burthen. Tags: UK, historical, not-comparable
    Sense id: en-fourth-rate-en-adj-tx0aH2eJ Categories (other): British English, Military, Nautical, English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 44 48 9 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 55 41 3 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 53 43 3 Topics: government, military, nautical, politics, transport, war
  2. (idiomatic, uncommon) Terrible, awful; less than third-rate. Tags: idiomatic, not-comparable, uncommon
    Sense id: en-fourth-rate-en-adj-uvRvfU-j Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 44 48 9 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 53 43 3 Synonyms: dismal, horrible, rubbish, abysmal [figuratively], atrocious, awful, bad, chronic [slang], coarse, corny [African-American-Vernacular-English], crap [mildly, slang, vulgar], crapalicious [rare, slang], crappy [mildly, slang, vulgar], crummy [slang], deityforsaken [humorous, rare], dire, disagreeable, dismal, dogshit [vulgar], dreadful, fifth-rate [idiomatic, uncommon], foul, fourth-rate [idiomatic, uncommon], godawful, hellish [excessive], hideous, hopeless, horrendous, horrid, horrible, horrific, inadequate, incompetent, inelegant, intolerable, inferior, lackluster, loathsome, lousy, miserable, naff [Britain, slang], negative, odious, ordinary [Australia, New-Zealand], pathetic, peak [Multicultural-London-English], piss-poor, rotten, rubbish [Australia, Britain, New-Zealand, colloquial], shitawful [vulgar], shitty [vulgar], sixth-rate [idiomatic, uncommon], sloppy, subpar, terrible, unfavorable, wack [African-American-Vernacular-English], ass [slang, vulgar], bad, base, below par [idiomatic], bottom-shelf, BTEC [UK], bum, cheap, cheap and nasty [UK], cheapshit [vulgar], cheesy, chintzy [figuratively], coffee-and [derogatory, slang], crappo [slang], crappy [vulgar], craptastic [slang, vulgar], crapperific [slang, vulgar], craptabulous [slang, vulgar], craptacular [US, slang, vulgar], cruddy [slang], crummy [informal], drecky, flimsy, fourth-rate [idiomatic, uncommon], gash [UK, slang, vulgar], inferior, lousy, low, low-grade, low-quality, low-rent, made in China [idiomatic], mid [Internet, slang], naughty [obsolete], one-star [idiomatic], poor, poor man's, pound-shop [UK, derogatory], punk, rinky-dink [US, informal], ropy [Ireland, UK], rubbish [Australia, Britain, New-Zealand, informal], sad, schlocky, scrubby, second-rate [idiomatic], shoddy, slazy [archaic], slight [dialectal, obsolete], slim [UK, dialectal], subpar, shit [vulgar], shitty [informal, vulgar], substandard, ticky-tacky [US], tenth-rate [idiomatic], third-rate [idiomatic], tin-pot [informal], trashy, under par, woeful, wretched
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: fifth-rate, first-rate, second-rate, sixth-rate, third-rate

Noun

Forms: fourth-rates [plural], fourth rate [alternative]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} fourth-rate (plural fourth-rates)
  1. (UK, military, nautical, historical) A fourth-rate ship of the line. Tags: UK, historical Related terms: two-decker
    Sense id: en-fourth-rate-en-noun-fhEkKaSG Categories (other): British English, Military, Nautical Topics: government, military, nautical, politics, transport, war

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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