Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

low-quality

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: 4.91 in modern English

Syllables: low-qual-i-ty
IPA

25

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

4

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Of poor quality; inferior.

Example Sentences

"C is for Ceramics. C is for - Yingge? Well, not quite, but ‘Yingge is for ceramics’ is something almost any Taiwanese can chant. This little town in the very southern part of Taipei County lives by and for the production of high- and low-quality ceramic and pottery objects: everything from cupboard handles to Song-dynasty vases."
"As with the Facebook AI-slop farms, social media shock jocks churning out obviously fake, low-quality images don’t care whether they’re riling up real people, boring them, or creating fodder for bots and other spammers."

Inflected Forms

lower-quality (comparative) lowest-quality (superlative)

Phrases

second-class third-class dollar-store Tesco Value low-quality thing

Frequently Paired Words

second-class third-class dollar-store Poundland Tesco Value Wish.com despicable lamentable

Synonyms

low-grade low-rent one-star ass bad base below par bottom-shelf BTEC bum cheap cheap and nasty

Antonyms

high-quality all that good high-grade medium-quality quality solid sound excellent

Questions

What does low-quality mean?: Of poor quality; inferior.

How to pronounce low-quality

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