substandard

1. 1.

   falling short of some prescribed norm

   “substandard housing”

   Synonymsdeficientinferior

   Similarnonstandard

Questions about substandard

What does substandard mean?

substandard means "falling short of some prescribed norm".

How many syllables are in substandard?

substandard has 3 syllables: sub-stan-dard. The stress falls on "stan". In IPA it is /səbˈstændɚd/.

What is another word for substandard?

Close synonyms include deficient, inferior. 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 substandard a common word?

substandard is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with substandard?

2 words rhyme with substandard. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.