Definition of "so-so" [so•-so]

• Neither very good nor very bad; passable: a so-so performance; feeling so-so. (adjective)
• Neither very well nor very poorly; passably: I swam so-so, but better than yesterday. (adverb)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "This global mentality shift is now threatening to strip French mothers of what has, ironically, made them among the most fertile women in the developed world: Their willingness to be so-so moms."
• "Elisabeth Badinter's bestselling book champions France's so-so moms as the secret to high Gallic birth rates."
• "This app's color-matching feature offers the same so-so results as the Benjamin Moore app."