Substandard - Crossword Clue

Crossword Clue Last Updated: 12/03/2024

Below are possible answers for the crossword clue Substandard.

9 letter answer(s) to substandard

DEFICIENT
  1. falling short of some prescribed norm; "substandard housing"
  2. inadequate in amount or degree; "a deficient education"; "deficient in common sense"; "lacking in stamina"; "tested and found wanting"
  3. of a quantity not able to fulfill a need or requirement; "insufficient funds"

4 letter answer(s) to substandard

DUFF
  1. a stiff flour pudding steamed or boiled usually and containing e.g. currants and raisins and citron
  2. Worthless or false.
POOR
  1. lacking in specific resources, qualities or substances; "a poor land"; "the area was poor in timber and coal"; "food poor in nutritive value"
  2. characterized by or indicating poverty; "the country had a poor economy"; "they lived in the poor section of town"
  3. deserving or inciting pity; "a hapless victim"; "miserable victims of war"; "the shabby room struck her as extraordinarily pathetic"- Galsworthy; "piteous appeals for help"; "pitiable homeless children"; "a pitiful fate"; "Oh, you poor thing"; "his poor distorted limbs"; "a wretched life"
  4. having little money or few possessions; "deplored the gap between rich and poor countries"; "the proverbial poor artist living in a garret"
  5. not sufficient to meet a need; "an inadequate income"; "a poor salary"; "money is short"; "on short rations"; "food is in short supply"; "short on experience"
  6. people without possessions or wealth (considered as a group); "the urban poor need assistance"
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5 letter answer(s) to substandard

ROPEY
  1. (British informal) very poor in quality; "ropey food"; "a ropey performance"
  2. forming viscous or glutinous threads
  3. of or resembling rope (or ropes) in being long and strong

11 letter answer(s) to substandard

SECOND-RATE
  1. moderate to inferior in quality; "they improved the quality from mediocre to above average"

6 letter answer(s) to substandard

SHODDY
  1. designed to deceive or mislead either deliberately or inadvertently; "the deceptive calm in the eye of the storm"; "deliberately deceptive packaging"; "a misleading similarity"; "statistics can be presented in ways that are misleading"; "shoddy business practices"
  2. cheap and shoddy; "cheapjack moviemaking...that feeds on the low taste of the mob"- Judith Crist
  3. of inferior workmanship and materials; "mean little jerry-built houses"
  4. Poorly made
  5. reclaimed wool fiber

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