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one-horse
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective one-horse has 1 sense
- one-horse(s = adj.all) jerkwater, pokey, poky - small and remote and insignificant; "a jerkwater college"; "passed a series of poky little one-horse towns"
CIDE DICTIONARY
one-horse, a.
- Drawn by one horse; having but a single horse; as, a one-horse carriage. [1913 Webster]
- Second-rate; inferior; small; as, a one-horse town. [1913 Webster]
ROGET THESAURUS
one-horse
Imperfection
N imperfection, imperfectness, deficiency, inadequacy, peccancy, immaturity, fault, defect, weak point, screw loose, flaw, gap, twist, taint, attainder, bar sinister, hole in one's coat, blemish, weakness, half blood, shortcoming, drawback, seamy side, mediocrity, no great shakes, no great catch, not much to boast of, one-horse shay, imperfect, not perfect, deficient, defective, faulty, unsound, tainted, out of order, out of tune, cracked, leaky, sprung, warped, lame, injured, peccant, frail, inadequate, crude, incomplete, found wanting, below par, short-handed, below its full strength, under its full strength, below its full complement, indifferent, middling, ordinary, mediocre, average, so-so, coucicouci, milk and water, tolerable, fair, passable, pretty well, pretty good, rather good, moderately good, good, good enough, well enough, adequate, decent, not bad, not amiss, inobjectionable, unobjectionable, admissible, bearable, only better than nothing, secondary, inferior, second-rate, second-best, one-horse, almost, to a limited extent, rather, pretty, moderately, passing, only, considering, all things considered, enough, surgit amari aliquid.
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