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Oakland Technical High School. Like any high-school experience, it was ambiguous. I was shy with girls; I had friends, but there were times I didn't feel I had the right friends. My grades were only so-so.
Frank Oz

Meaning of "so-so" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF SO-SO

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SO-SO

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
So-So can act as an adjective and an adverb.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

The adverb is an invariable part of the sentence that can change, explain or simplify a verb or another adverb.

WHAT DOES SO-SO MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of so-so in the English dictionary

The definition of so-so in the dictionary is neither good nor bad. Other definition of so-so is in an average or indifferent manner.


WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SO-SO

so help me
so long
so much
so much for
so that
so there
so to speak
so what!
so-and-so
so-called
soak
soak test
soakage
soakaway
soaked
soaker
soaking
soakingly
Soane
soap

WORDS THAT END LIKE SO-SO

also
Aso
aviso
basso
Burkina Faso
Burkina-Faso
Cardoso
El Paso
espresso
expresso
just so
more so
or so
peso
Picasso
say-so
so
so-and-so
Treviso
verso

Synonyms and antonyms of so-so in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «SO-SO»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «so-so» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of so-so

Translation of «so-so» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SO-SO

Find out the translation of so-so to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of so-so from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «so-so» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

一般化
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

así así
570 millions of speakers

English

so-so
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

गवारा
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

بَيْـنَ بَيْـنَ
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

так себе
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

mais ou menos
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

বিক্ষিপ্তভাবে
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

comme ci comme ça
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Begitu-begitu
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

so la la
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

まあまあ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

그럭저럭
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Dadi-dadi
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

tàm tạm
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

மிக மிக
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

असे-म्हणून
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Eh işte
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

così così
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

tak sobie
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

так собі
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

așa și așa
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

έτσι κι έτσι
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

so-so
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

så där
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

sånn passe
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of so-so

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SO-SO»

The term «so-so» is very widely used and occupies the 9.326 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SO-SO» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about so-so

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2 QUOTES WITH «SO-SO»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word so-so.
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Shirley Knight
The thing that separates a so-so director and a great director is a love and caring for film.
2
Frank Oz
Oakland Technical High School. Like any high-school experience, it was ambiguous. I was shy with girls; I had friends, but there were times I didn't feel I had the right friends. My grades were only so-so.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SO-SO»

Discover the use of so-so in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to so-so and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Drama High: So, So Hood
With her senior year just beginning, Jayd has graduated to the next level with her powers and is going head-to-head with her former best friend, Misty, while also having to deal with the aftermath of the debutante ball, her boyfriend's ...
L. Divine, 2011
2
So, So Hood
At the start of her senior year in high school, Jayd must handle the fallout from the debutante ball, her boyfriend's cheating, and going head-to-head against her former best friend, Misty.
L. Divine, 2011
3
A Perspective of Wages and Prices (Routledge Revivals)
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Henry Phelps Brown, Sheila V. Hopkins, 2013
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Celestial Navigation in the GPS Age
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John Karl, 2007
5
Symposium on Use of Pozzolanic Materials in Mortars and ...
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The New Annual Register, Or, General Repository of History, ...
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Andrew Kippis, 1801
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Adaptive Processing of Brain Signals
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Saeid Sanei, 2013
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Mathematical Intuitionism: Introduction to Proof Theory
2-2-4- so 3 (so D 11)/so D (so D 12)> so D (so 3 1)) (given), so/\so D 17 (by 4)), so/\so D so/\so (nxieln 6)), so/\soD11 (by 2)), so D (so D11) (by 3))- E1 2.2.5. |— so :> (111 3 so/\11)). s> so/\so D so/\so (by 2-31), so D (so D so/\so) (by 3))- U 2.2. 6 ...
Al'bert Grigor'evič Dragalin
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PC Mag
Power Programming HEAP.ASM 1 Of 2 so so so so so so so so title P599 To trade safety for speed, true equ false equ chkptrs equ DGROUP group ' _DATA segment hbase dw hsize dw _DATA ends _TEXT segment assume HINIT: so so so so ...
10
Cancer Risk Evaluation: Methods and Trends
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Günter Obe, Gary E. Marchant, Burkhard Jandrig, 2011

NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SO-SO»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term so-so is used in the context of the following news items.
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Soso Jamobo recruit scouting report: Special running back
Don't let the name fool you. There is nothing so-so about Jamobo's skill set -- the Plano (Texas) Plano West product is already one of 2015's most coveted ... «SB Nation, Feb 14»

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