Meanings
comparative lower-quality · superlative lowest-quality
- Of poor quality; inferior.
As with the Facebook AI-slop farms, social media shock jocks churning out obviously fake, low-quality images don’t care whether they’re riling up real people, boring them, or creating fodder for bots and other spammers.
2024 August 21, Charlie Warzel, “The MAGA Aesthetic Is AI Slop”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 29 Aug 20241 more example
C is for Ceramics. C is for - Yingge? Well, not quite, but ‘Yingge is for ceramics’ is something almost any Taiwanese can chant. This little town in the very southern part of Taipei County lives by and for the production of high- and low-quality ceramic and pottery objects: everything from cupboard handles to Song-dynasty vases.
2011 March, Robert Kelly, Joshua Samuel Brown, “Northern Taiwan”, in Taiwan (Lonely Planet), 8th edition, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 120, column 1Synonyms: low-grade, low-rent, one-star, ass, bad, base, below par, bottom-shelf · Antonyms: high-quality
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveOf poor quality; inferior.
Translations
Chinese Mandarin 劣質的 /劣质的, 低劣的
- 劣質的 /劣质的 (lièzhì de)of poor quality
- 低劣的 (dīliè de)of poor quality
Dutch van lage kwaliteit, minderwaardig
- van lage kwaliteitof poor quality
- minderwaardigof poor quality
Finnish heikkolaatuinen
- heikkolaatuinenof poor quality
German minderwertig, minderqualitativ
- minderwertigof poor quality
- minderqualitativof poor quality
Hindi खराब क्वालिटी
- खराब क्वालिटी (kharāb kvāliṭī)of poor quality
Hungarian alacsony minőségű
- alacsony minőségűof poor quality
Indonesian berkualitas rendah
- berkualitas rendahof poor quality
Japanese 低品質の
- 低品質の (teihinshitsu no)of poor quality
Korean 저품질의
- 저품질의 (jeopumjir-ui)of poor quality
Polish niskiej jakości
- niskiej jakościof poor quality
Russian нека́чественный, низкока́чественный
- нека́чественный (nekáčestvennyj)of poor quality
- низкока́чественный (nizkokáčestvennyj)of poor quality
Spanish de baja calidad, de baja estofa
- de baja calidadof poor quality
- de baja estofaof poor quality
Swedish låg kvalitet
- låg kvalitetof poor quality
Turkish uyuz
- uyuzof poor quality
Ukrainian нея́кісний, низькоя́кісний
- нея́кісний (nejákisnyj)of poor quality
- низькоя́кісний (nyzʹkojákisnyj)of poor quality
Cite this entry
low-quality. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/low-quality
“low-quality.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/low-quality. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “low-quality,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/low-quality.
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