Intermediate vs Mediocre - What's the difference?
intermediate | mediocre |
Being between two extremes, or in the middle of a range.
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, title= Anything in an intermediate position.
An intermediary.
(chemistry) Any substance formed as part of a series of chemical reactions that is not the end-product.
to mediate, to be an intermediate
to arrange, in the manner of a broker
Ordinary: not extraordinary; not special, exceptional, or great; of medium quality;
As adjectives the difference between intermediate and mediocre
is that intermediate is being between two extremes, or in the middle of a range while mediocre is ordinary: not extraordinary; not special, exceptional, or great; of medium quality.As a noun intermediate
is anything in an intermediate position.As a verb intermediate
is to mediate, to be an intermediate.intermediate
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Adjective
(en adjective)The machine of a new soul, passage=The yawning gap in neuroscientists’ understanding of their topic is in the intermediate scale of the brain’s anatomy. Science has a passable knowledge of how individual nerve cells, known as neurons, work. It also knows which visible lobes and ganglia of the brain do what. But how the neurons are organised in these lobes and ganglia remains obscure.}}
Synonyms
* See alsoNoun
(en noun)Verb
(intermediat)- Central banks need to regulate the entities that intermediate monetary transactions.
Derived terms
* intermediation *mediocre
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Alternative forms
* mediocer (obsolete) * (dated)Adjective
(en adjective)- I'm pretty good at tennis but only mediocre at racquetball.