What is another word for substandard?

Pronunciation: [sˈʌbstandəd] (IPA)

The word "substandard" refers to a product or object that fails to meet the expected quality standards. There are several synonyms that can be used to describe something that is substandard, such as inadequate, inferior, deficient, imperfect, unsatisfactory, or subpar. Such items or products can be faulty, shoddy, or cheaply made. In addition to physical characteristics, substandard can also refer to something that is deemed substandard due to ethical or moral concerns. Other words that can be used interchangeably with substandard include low quality, suboptimal, mediocre, or insufficient. When it comes to describing work, substandard work can be labeled as unacceptable, poor, inadequate, or unacceptable, and substandard service can be dubbed poor or inadequate.

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What are the opposite words for substandard?

The antonyms for the word "substandard" are excellent, superior, outstanding, exceptional, remarkable, and first-class. These words signify the highest level of quality and performance. Substandard refers to something that is below the expected standard, below average or deficient in quality. On the other hand, excellent refers to something of the highest quality, remarkably good in character, skill, or achievement. Superior indicates something surpassing in quality, while outstanding refers to something exceptional or standing out from the rest. Therefore, using antonyms for substandard helps to express something positive, of high quality, and exceptional while emphasizing the need for excellence.

Usage examples for Substandard

But still, we do not condemn imbeciles, idiots or defectives, or other substandard, subnormal creatures to the prisons.
"The Glands Regulating Personality"
Louis Berman, M.D.
Americans do not regard jobs that pay substandard wages as productive jobs.
"Complete State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to the Present"
Various
One of the basic steps which the Congress can take to establish a high level of consumer income is to amend the Fair Labor Standards Act to raise substandard wages to a decent minimum and to extend similar protection to additional workers who are not covered by the present act.
"Complete State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to the Present"
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Famous quotes with Substandard

  • Although children are only 24 percent of the population, they're 100 percent of our future and we cannot afford to provide any child with a substandard education.
    Ed Markey
  • Too many children are being parked in substandard day care with workers who make little more than a parking attendant.
    Bill Nelson
  • The consciousness in [Australia and New Zealand] of the elevation of a substandard dialect into a national tongue has been responsible for a mixture of attitudes to citizens of the mother country - inferiority, defiance, contempt. A blending of the first two may be responsible for the upward intonation pattern of answers, more appropriate to questions….slang is of its nature defiant. It is also demotic….But the ruling class of Australia is itself demotic.
    Anthony Burgess
  • Maybe you would prefer not to be bothered with how the government is run. If that's the case then you have no right to complain when your taxes are raised, or if your children's education is substandard, or you have to wait a year for a vital operation. Good government does not happen by itself but is the result of individual effort. One of the easiest and most effective things you can do is simply to ask for information. I hope I've given you the tools and confidence to do exactly that.
    Heather Brooke
  • The appropriate emotion is shame — shame at our dependency, in this case, on the underpaid labor of others. When someone works for less pay than she can live on — when, for example, she goes hungry so that you can eat more cheaply and conveniently — then she has made a great sacrifice for you, she has made you a gift of some part of her abilities, her health, and her life. The "working poor," as they are approvingly termed, are in fact the major philanthropists of our society. They neglect their own children so that the children of others will be cared for; they live in substandard housing so that other homes will be shiny and perfect; they endure privation so that inflation will be low and stock prices high. To be a member of the working poor is to be an anonymous donor, a nameless benefactor, to everyone else.
    Barbara Ehrenreich

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