low-grade

See also: lowgrade and low grade

English

Alternative forms

low grade, lowgrade

Adjective

low-grade (comparative more low-grade, superlative most low-grade)

1. Of inferior quality.
   • 1961 September, “Talking of Trains: Greater scope for steam”, in Modern Railways, page 517:

     Were the possibilities of improving the efficiency of British Railways' steam locomotives by making the best use of the reasonably satisfactory low-grade lump coal available today, and thereby saving more high-grade locomotive coal, borne in mind when it was decided to go ahead rapidly with replacement of steam traction?

Antonyms

• high-grade

Derived terms

• low-grade fever

Translations

of inferior quality

• Bulgarian: долнокачествен (bg) (dolnokačestven)
• German: minderwertig (de)
• Malayalam: തരംതാഴ്ന്ന (tarantāḻnna)
• Russian: низкосо́ртный (ru) (nizkosórtnyj), низкопро́бный (ru) (nizkopróbnyj)

Anagrams

• goldware