so-so

Meanings

Adjective

• Neither good nor bad; tolerable, passable, indifferent.

Adverb

• Neither very well nor very poorly.

Related

Similar words

• (neither good nor bad): average, comme ci comme ça, fair, meh, mediocre, middling, lackluster, okay
• (neither well nor poorly): blandly, indifferently, insipidly, moderately, passably

Origin

• From Middle English so so, from Old English swā swā, equivalent to . Compare Dutch zozo ("so-so"), German soso ("so-so"), Norwegian så som så ("so-so").