grade C
Passing but unremarkable
Grade C denotes middling or barely acceptable quality—passing but unimpressive.
In academic grading, C typically means average or satisfactory work.
Applied to products, services, or performances, grade C suggests meeting minimum standards without distinction: The inspection rated the restaurant grade C.
The phrase often carries mild disappointment, implying something could have been better.
- averageArithmetic mean or ordinary
- middle of the roadUncontroversially mainstream stance
- mediocreOf only moderate quality
- below averageUnder the norm
- passingMoving by or temporary
satisfactory · okay · good enough · middling · nothing special · report card · school · test · score · beef · meat · quality · rating · standard · fair · acceptable · decent · ordinary
- ratingsA rating, rating, one star, five stars, rating scale
- quality grades
- ranking systemstop secret, secret, confidential, unclassified, restricted
- ranksrank and file, enlisted ranks, tier one, officer rank, tier two
- Product Ratingsexcellent, good, fair, poor, four star
- meat gradesprime, choice, select, standard, commercial
grade Cgrade A
Highest quality rating
A+ · straight A's · honors · distinction · top marks
grade Cpremium
Added cost for better
top-tier · first-rate · prime · gold standard · AAA rating
- first gradeOpening elementary year
- fifth gradeSchool year for ten-year-olds
- second gradeElementary school's third year
- fourth gradeElementary school's middle year
- sixth gradeAcademic year for eleven-year-olds
- third gradeSchool year for eight-year-olds
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