Definitions for second-rate

second-rate sec·ond-rate

Spelling: [sek-uh nd-reyt]
IPA: /ˈsɛk əndˈreɪt/

Second-Rate is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 1264 anagrams from letters in second-rate (-acdeenorst).

Definitions for second-rate

adjective

  1. of lesser or minor quality, importance, or the like:
  2. inferior; mediocre:

Origin of second-rate

First recorded in 1660-70

Examples for second-rate

It is strange how Dante has been left to second-rate interpreters!

They don't even know of the second-rate people or the third rate.

I used to be obsessed with the second-rate films of Alfred Hitchcock.

Obviously, here in America we have a sympathetic tolerance for the "second-rate."

The place begins to feel like a second-rate Madame Tussauds.

Otherwise, to what use could these second-rate horses be put?

Or did the poor guy have to read a second-rate novel or a false-sounding biography in his last hours on earth?

At a certain point, the Christie staffers begin to sound like characters in a second-rate Tarantino script.

It was a second-rate theatrical journal, still damp from the press.

When Smith phoned the American Embassy in Rome to ask for assistance, he says the couple was treated like second-rate citizens.

Word Value for second-rate
Scrable

9

Words with friends

11

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