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adjective
1.
below standard or less than adequate: substandard housing conditions.
2.
noting or pertaining to a dialect or variety of a language or a feature of usage that is often considered by others to mark its user as uneducated; nonstandard.
3.
Insurance.
a.
not measuring up to an insurer's regular standards in undertaking risks: a substandard risk.
b.
pertaining to insurance written to cover substandard risks.
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Substandard
is always a great word to know.
So is quincunx. Does it mean:
| an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance. |
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
Example Sentences
- Not much different than comments on a substandard and unoriginal essay.
- Different demographics is no excuse for a substandard education.
- It was one of his supposedly substandard teachers who encouraged him to write in the first place.
Collins
World English Dictionary
| substandard (sʌbˈstændəd) | |
| —adj | |
| 1. | below an established or required standard |
| 2. | another word for nonstandard |
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