 middling |
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| 1. | [ adjective ] of no exceptional quality or ability | |
| Synonyms: | average mediocre fair | |
| Examples: | "a novel of average merit" "only a fair performance of the sonata" "in fair health" "the caliber of the students has gone from mediocre to above average" "the performance was middling at best" |
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| Related terms: | ordinary | |
| 2. | [ adverb ] to a moderately sufficient extent or degree | |
| Synonyms: | fairly reasonably somewhat moderately within_reason passably | |
| Examples: | "the shoes are priced reasonably" "he is fairly clever with computers" "they lived comfortably within reason" |
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| Related terms: | unreasonably unreasonably fair moderate moderate | |
| 3. | [ noun ] any commodity of intermediate quality or size (especially when coarse particles of ground wheat are mixed with bran) | |
| Related terms: | commodity | |
| Similar spelling: |
midline meddling middleman Middlemiss middle_name |
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