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synonyms for first rate

  • adroit
  • deft
  • excellent
  • exquisite
  • first-rate
  • masterly
  • skillful
  • adept
  • clever
  • consummate
  • crack
  • crackerjack
  • dexterous
  • fine
  • finished
  • master
  • preeminent
  • proficient
  • superior
  • superlative
  • supreme
  • transcendent
On this page you'll find 1494 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to first rate, such as: adroit, deft, excellent, exquisite, first-rate, and masterly.

antonyms for first rate

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  • awkward
  • clumsy
  • imperfect
  • inept
  • inferior
  • poor
  • unskilled
  • unskillful
  • amateurish
  • ignorant
  • stupid
  • unproficient
  • bad
  • common
  • dishonorable
  • humble
  • insignificant
  • low
  • mean
  • modest
  • normal
  • ordinary
  • undignified
  • unimportant
  • unimpressive
  • usual
  • unrefined
  • unsophisticated
    • bad
    • inferior
    • least
    • poor
    • second-rate
    • worst
    • minor
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                  How to use first rate in a sentence

                  However, I am bound to admit that it is a first-rate country for sport—also for killing Englishmen.
                  HUNTING THE LIONSR.M. BALLANTYNE
                  And then at last the Pupil if he possesses a first-rate cramming memory might answer questions on it.
                  ASSIMILATIVE MEMORYMARCUS DWIGHT LARROWE (AKA PROF. A. LOISETTE)
                  I presume you know that Maria Theresa was a first-rate soldier; or, at least, she had the happy art of finding them.
                  BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, NO. CCCXXXIX. JANUARY, 1844. VOL. LV.VARIOUS
                  We find it was a town hand, said Blathers, continuing his report; for the style of work is first-rate.
                  OLIVER TWIST, VOL. II (OF 3)CHARLES DICKENS
                  He frequented the Italian Opera, which was his sole opportunity of hearing a good orchestra, chorus, and first-rate soloists.
                  THE LIFE & LETTERS OF PETER ILICH TCHAIKOVSKYMODESTE TCHAIKOVSKY
                  In 1849, he had a warehouse in York, and owned ten first-rate merchandise cars on the Road, doing a fine business.
                  THE CONDITION, ELEVATION, EMIGRATION, AND DESTINY OF THE COLORED PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATESMARTIN R. DELANY
                  We lead a monotonous existence, and are dreadfully bored, but for this very reason my health is first-rate.
                  THE LIFE & LETTERS OF PETER ILICH TCHAIKOVSKYMODESTE TCHAIKOVSKY
                  I am myself quite unable to form an idea what the collodion pictures done by first-rate photographers are like.
                  NOTES AND QUERIES, NUMBER 178, MARCH 26, 1853VARIOUS
                  These, indeed, are subjects peculiarly interesting to Brazil, and have naturally been of first-rate interest to him.
                  JOURNAL OF A VOYAGE TO BRAZILMARIA GRAHAM
                  The first-rate modern furniture, by Gillow, was eagerly inspected by the curious, and fetched fancy prices.
                  THE PIT TOWN CORONET, VOLUME II (OF 3)CHARLES JAMES WILLS
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