Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

second-drawer

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.77 in modern English

Syllables: sec-ond--draw-er
IPA

19

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

5

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Second-rate; mediocre.

Example Sentences

"[…] which contains a much larger proportion of the kind of second-drawer poems which do not quite come off in terms of total response but which poets are often reluctant to abandon because they are technically competent and a good deal of work has gone into them."

Antonyms

top-drawer

Questions

What does second-drawer mean?: Second-rate; mediocre.

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