My mother from Malaysia thinks that those three horses are so-so.
Source: tatoeba (958215)
So-so
//ˈsəʊˌsəʊ//
Synonyms for "so-so" (44 found)
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Closest matches (9)
Adverb(1 words)
Adjective(4 words)
Adverb(1 words)
Strong matches (13)
Noun(1 words)
Adjective(2 words)
Adjective(1 words)
Adverb(2 words)
Related words (22)
Noun(2 words)
Adverb(2 words)
Adverb(1 words)
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1 entriesTranslations
84 translations across 36 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- çka adj (neither good nor bad)
Arabic
4 entries- بَيْنَ بَيْنَ adj (neither good nor bad)
- مش بطال adj (neither good nor bad)
- مش بطال adj (neither good nor bad)
- نص نص adj (neither good nor bad)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- elə-belə adv (neither well nor poorly)
Bulgarian
3 entries- бива adj (neither good nor bad)
- горе-долу adj (neither good nor bad)
- долу-горе adj (neither good nor bad)
Catalan
1 entries- així així adj (neither good nor bad)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 馬馬虎虎 /马马虎虎 adj (neither good nor bad)
- 馬馬虎虎 /马马虎虎 adv (neither well nor poorly)
Czech
1 entries- všelijaký adj (neither good nor bad)
Dutch
2 entries- zozo adj (neither good nor bad)
- zozo adv (neither well nor poorly)
Esperanto
2 entries- iele-trapele adj (neither good nor bad)
- iele-trapele adv (neither well nor poorly)
Estonian
2 entries- nii ja naa adj (neither good nor bad)
- nii või naa adj (neither good nor bad)
Finnish
2 entries- niin ja näin adj (neither good nor bad)
- niin ja näin adv (neither well nor poorly)
French
4 entries- comme ci comme ça adj (neither good nor bad)
- couci-couça adj (neither good nor bad)
- comme ci comme ça adv (neither well nor poorly)
- couci-couça adv (neither well nor poorly)
German
4 entries- so lala adj (neither good nor bad)
- so la la adv (neither well nor poorly)
- so lala adv (neither well nor poorly)
- soso adv (neither well nor poorly)
Greek
1 entries- έτσι κι έτσι adj (neither good nor bad)
Hebrew
2 entries- ככה־ככה adj (neither good nor bad)
- ככה ככה adv (neither well nor poorly)
Hungarian
1 entries- szoszo adv (neither well nor poorly)
Icelandic
2 entries- svona svona adj (neither good nor bad)
- svona... adj (neither good nor bad)
Indonesian
1 entries- biasa saja adj (neither good nor bad)
Italian
2 entries- così così adj (neither good nor bad)
- così così adv (neither well nor poorly)
Japanese
2 entries- まあまあ adj (neither good nor bad)
- まあまあ adv (neither well nor poorly)
Korean
2 entries- 그저 그래요 adv (neither well nor poorly)
- 그저 그렇게 adv (neither well nor poorly)
Latin
2 entries- plus minus adj (neither good nor bad)
- plus minus adv (neither well nor poorly)
Louisiana Creole
2 entries- pokapok adj (neither good nor bad)
- pokapok adv (neither well nor poorly)
Macedonian
1 entries- така-така adj (neither good nor bad)
Norwegian
1 entries- passe adj (neither good nor bad)
Polish
3 entries- a nic takiego (ciekawego) adj (neither good nor bad)
- tak sobie adj (neither good nor bad)
- średnio adj (neither good nor bad)
Portuguese
4 entries- mais ou menos adj (neither good nor bad)
- assim assim, assim-assim adv (neither well nor poorly)
- assim, assim adv (neither well nor poorly)
- mais ou menos adv (neither well nor poorly)
Romanian
2 entries- așa și așa adj (neither good nor bad)
- așa și așa adv (neither well nor poorly)
Russian
4 entries- ничего́ adj (neither good nor bad)
- сре́дненький adj (neither good nor bad)
- та́к себе́ adj (neither good nor bad)
- ничего́ adv (neither well nor poorly)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- meadhanach adj (neither good nor bad)
Serbo-Croatian
1 entries- koliko-toliko adv (neither well nor poorly)
Spanish
4 entries- así así adj (neither good nor bad)
- me defiendo adj (neither good nor bad)
- más o menos adj (neither good nor bad)
- ni fu ni fa adj (neither good nor bad)
Swedish
2 entries- sådär adj (neither good nor bad)
- sådär adv (neither well nor poorly)
Thai
3 entries- งั้น ๆ adv (neither well nor poorly)
- เฉย ๆ adv (neither well nor poorly)
- เรื่อย ๆ adv (neither well nor poorly)
Vietnamese
1 entries- tàm tạm adv (neither well nor poorly)
Welsh
2 entries- felly felly adj (neither good nor bad)
- felly felly adv (neither well nor poorly)
Sample sentences
14 total sentences available.
So-so, nothing special.
Source: tatoeba (2886625)
Farmed fish are cheaper than wild ones and the taste is only "so-so".
Source: tatoeba (5147389)
Your idea is so-so.
Source: tatoeba (8225518)
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