"less than stellar" meaning in English

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  "pos": "adj",
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          "text": "Friday night’s performance was less than stellar.",
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          "ref": "1931, Music and Dance, volume 21, Melbourne, Vic.: Australian Musical News Pub. Co., →OCLC, page 27, column 2",
          "text": "Some years ago there were hundreds of musicians of ability, but of less stellar renown, who toured the country, giving performances at less than stellar fees.",
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          "ref": "1970, Hardware Age, volume 205, New York, N.Y.: David Williams Co., →OCLC, page 8, column 1",
          "text": "Yet the economic seers are at it again, seemingly unabashed by their somewhat less than stellar performances in 1969.",
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          "ref": "2012, Linda A. Jenkins, “What is Social Lending?”, in Creative Financing: How to Get a Small Business Loan without a Banker, Gold Alliance Group, page 1",
          "text": "Where a bank may automatically reject any borrower based on a bad credit score, this is not true for all social lending networks. You can still have a less than stellar score and obtain funding as long as you can convince a peer tha your project is worthy or your business model is strong.",
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  "word": "less than stellar"
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