third-rate
Adjective
Of a Royal Navy ship of the line in the Napoleonic Era: having 64–80 guns across two gun decks, a complement of 500–650, and weighing approximately 1,750 tons burthen.
Usage- UK usage
- Historical
- not-comparable
Poor, shoddy; less than second-rate.
Usage- idiomatic
- not-comparable
- Synonyms
- Examples
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He was smoking a cherry-wood pipe, and looked on the whole as if he had borrowed his outfit from the wardrobe of a third-rate dramatic company.
I consider it to now be a third-rate service run without any excuses being offered.
Noun
A third-rate ship of the line.
Usage- UK usage
- Historical
- Related words
Adjective
of lesser quality than second-rate
Word forms
third ratethird-rates