Meaning of Mediocre

What is Mediocre:

Mediocre indica something or someone that does not have the quality or value that is minimally acceptable to its environment.

The word mediocre comes from Latin mediocris which means “average” or “common.” Etymologically it is composed of the word medium which expresses “middle or intermediate” and ocris which means “mountain or steep rock”, so it indicates something or someone who stays halfway along the road, with the top of the mountain being the final destination.

The term mediocre is an adjective used to indicate something of little value or something done with minimal effort, such as, for example, the expression mediocre love indicates a way of loving that is worthless but still insists on calling it love to indicate that There is a loving relationship.

Mediocre, used to describe a person, is pejorative since it indicates that someone has no skills or intellect.

In Catholicism, the word mediocre is used to indicate those faithful who do not practice or obey the teachings of said religion.

The word mediocre is used as a synonym for: mean, average, vulgar and common. Some antonyms for mediocre are: excellent, magnificent, brilliant and superior.

The word mediocre translated into English is mediocre, for example, “His presentation was mediocre” which in Spanish means: “His presentation was mediocre.”

Book The mediocre man

The mediocre man is a book written by the Argentine sociologist and doctor José Ingeniero in 1913 that compares the moral, intellectual and character characteristics between an idealist and a mediocre person.

Gather a thousand geniuses in a council and you will have the soul of a mediocre

For José Ingeniero, the mediocre is the one who joins the others, revealing himself by the low level of his collective opinions. In this sense, it is the society that thinks and wants for the mediocre, since they do not have a voice, but an echo.