English Dictionary

fifth-rate

adj

(UK, military, nautical, historical) 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.

He is a fifth-rate actor.

意味（1）

(UK, military, nautical, historical) 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.

意味（2）

(idiomatic, uncommon) Terrible, awful; less than fourth-rate.