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Is there a difference between "OK" and "Mediocre"?
by aydyn 1y ago
Is there a difference between "OK" and "Mediocre"?
- Forgeties79 1y ago“Ok” I generally associate with being adequate but could obviously be better. “Mediocre” is just inadequate.
- Marsymars 1y ago“Mediocre” is one of those words where common parlance doesn’t quite line up with the textbook definition. e.g. from the Oxford English Dictionary: “Of middling quality; neither bad nor good...”
- furyofantares 1y agoSome synonyms for mediocre: decent, middling, ordinary, so-so. It can mean inadequate, but it can also mean adequate.
- Forgeties79 1y agoI’m just talking about how I view/use it.
- rerdavies 1y agoAnother common synonym for mediocre: has no place on a software development team. Not technically correct, admittedly, but that's how I read that word in an software engineering context. Adequate is not good enough.
- btucker 1y agoI probably should have written it as “OK Engineer--“