bush-league

1. 1.

   not of the highest quality or sophistication

   Synonymsbush

   Similarinferior

Questions about bush-league

What does bush-league mean?

bush-league means "not of the highest quality or sophistication".

How many syllables are in bush-league?

bush-league has 4 syllables: bush--le-a-gue. The stress falls on "le".

What is another word for bush-league?

Close synonyms include bush. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bush-league a common word?

bush-league is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.