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subaverage
adjective
(alsosub-average)uk /ˌsʌbˈæv.ər.ɪdʒ/ us /ˈsʌbˌæv.ɚ.ɪdʒ/
lower or worse than average:
Members of staff who are deemed to have demonstrated subaverage performance are required to retrain.
The region has experienced subaverage temperatures for this time of year.
The law stipulates that someone must have significantly subaverage intellectual functioning in order to qualify for an exemption.
A 12% return on investment might look good at first glance but it's actually sub-average compared with the results that other funds have delivered.
To call his performance in the game subaverage would be polite - he was dreadful!
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
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be not onidiom
beneath
cop
deficiency
deficiency in something
intolerable
intolerably
lamely
lameness
leave a lot to be desiredidiom
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second-rate
sub-optimum
suboptimal
substandard
unsatisfactory
unsatisfying
unsound
unworthily
unworthy
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