LOW QUALITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does low quality mean? 

• LOW QUALITY (noun)
  The noun LOW QUALITY has 1 sense:

1. an inferior quality

  Familiarity information: LOW QUALITY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LOW QUALITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An inferior quality

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

inferiority; low quality

Hypernyms ("low quality" is a kind of...):

caliber; calibre; quality (a degree or grade of excellence or worth)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "low quality"):

poorness (the quality of being poorly made or maintained)

scrawniness; scrubbiness (the property of being stunted and inferior in size or quality)

second class (not the highest quality in a classification)

wretchedness (the quality of being poor and inferior and sorry)

Antonym:

high quality (the quality of being superior)

 Context examples 

Usually, this category includes carcinomas without definitive diagnoses due to a small amount of material, or its low quality.

(Carcinoma, Other, of the Mouse Pulmonary System, NCI Thesaurus/MMHCC)