so-so Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite being neither good nor bad
    indifferent.
    • an indifferent performance
    • a gifted painter but an indifferent actor
    • her work at the office is passable
    • a so-so golfer
    • feeling only so-so
    • prepared a tolerable dinner
    • a tolerable working knowledge of French
  2. adverb in an acceptable (but not outstanding) manner
    tolerably; acceptably.
    • she plays tennis tolerably

WordNet


So"-so` adjective
Etymology
So + so.
Definitions
  1. Neither very good nor very bad; middling; passable; tolerable; indifferent.
    In some Irish houses, where things are so-so, One gammon of bacon hangs up for a show. Goldsmith.
    He [Burns] certainly wrote some so-so verses to the Tree of Liberty. Prof. Wilson.
So"-so` adverb
Definitions
  1. Tolerably; passably. H. James.

Webster 1913