Not good, not bad

The answer

SOSO

4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the SOSO answer page.

Used 14 times across 13 distinct years; most recently in 2022; first recorded in 1954. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other answers for this clue

The same clue has also been answered these ways in the xd corpus. Answers inside this collection link to their own answer page.

• EHHITSOK (1 uses in xd)
• FAIR (1 uses in xd)
• MEDIOCRE (1 uses in xd)

Other clues for SOSO

Every other clue in this collection answered by SOSO, most used first.

• Mediocre - used 315 times, most recently in 2026
• Middling - used 126 times, most recently in 2026
• Meh - used 101 times, most recently in 2026
• Fair-to-middling - used 95 times, most recently in 2025
• Fair - used 87 times, most recently in 2025
• Average - used 68 times, most recently in 2026
• Passable - used 56 times, most recently in 2022
• Just average - used 53 times, most recently in 2026
• Nothing special - used 53 times, most recently in 2026
• Just okay - used 39 times, most recently in 2026
• Nothing to write home about - used 38 times, most recently in 2026
• No great shakes - used 37 times, most recently in 2024
• Just OK - used 34 times, most recently in 2026
• Unexceptional - used 34 times, most recently in 2025
• Just fair - used 32 times, most recently in 2022
• Just adequate - used 26 times, most recently in 2026
• Run-of-the-mill - used 22 times, most recently in 2021
• Neither good nor bad - used 21 times, most recently in 2026
• Not bad - used 21 times, most recently in 2021
• Not great - used 21 times, most recently in 2026
• Not very good - used 21 times, most recently in 2024
• Tolerable - used 21 times, most recently in 2007
• Indifferent - used 18 times, most recently in 2016
• Just meh - used 17 times, most recently in 2026
• "Eh" - used 14 times, most recently in 2021
• C-worthy - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
• Ho-hum - used 12 times, most recently in 2019
• Just all right - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
• Unremarkable - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
• Fair to middlin' - used 11 times, most recently in 2018
• Just passable - used 11 times, most recently in 2022
• Middlin' - used 11 times, most recently in 2017
• Not so hot - used 10 times, most recently in 2024
• Only fair - used 10 times, most recently in 2023
• Worth a C, maybe - used 10 times, most recently in 2019
• Not great, not terrible - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
• Comme ci, comme ca - used 8 times, most recently in 2015
• Garden-variety - used 8 times, most recently in 2013
• Okay - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
• Ordinary - used 8 times, most recently in 2006
• Tolerably - used 8 times, most recently in 1999
• Eliciting a shrug, perhaps - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• Just passing - used 7 times, most recently in 2010
• Neither great nor terrible - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• Not good, but not bad - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• Indifferently. - used 6 times, most recently in 2005
• Just kinda meh - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
• Lackluster - used 6 times, most recently in 2016
• Mediocre (Hyph.) - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• Not bad, but not great - used 6 times, most recently in 2026

Related clues

Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.

• Not fooled by - ONTO, used 444 times
• Not as much - LESS, used 378 times
• Goes bad - ROTS, used 226 times
• If not - ELSE, used 199 times
• "My bad!" - OOPS, used 191 times
• Not "fer" - AGIN, used 181 times

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