grade n
1 brand, category, class, condition, degree, echelon, group, level, mark, notch, order, place, position, quality, rank, rung, size, stage, station, step
2 make the grade (informal) come through with flying colours (informal) measure up
3 acclivity, bank, declivity, gradient, hill, incline, rise, slope vb
4 arrange, brand, class, classify, evaluate, group, order, range, rank, rate, sequence, sort, value
low-grade
bad, bush-league (Austral. & N.Z. informal) chickenshit (U.S. slang) dime-a-dozen (informal) duff (informal) inferior, low-rent (informal, chiefly U.S.) not good enough, not up to snuff (informal) of a sort or of sorts, piss-poor (taboo slang) poor, poxy (slang) second-rate, substandard, tinhorn (U.S. slang) two-bit (U.S. & Canad. slang)