fifth-rate (English, adj)
expansion: fifth-rate (not comparable)
Senses:
topics: government
military
nautical
politics
transport
war
glosses: Of a Royal Navy warship in the Napoleonic Era: having 32–44 guns across one or two gun decks, a complement of 200–300, and weighing 700–1,450 tons burthen.
tags: UK
historical
not-comparable
glosses: Terrible, awful; less than fourth-rate.
tags: idiomatic
not-comparable
uncommon
Forms:
form: fifth rate
tags: alternative