Middling

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Middling \Mid"dling\, a.
     Of middle rank, state, size, or quality; about equally
     distant from the extremes; medium; moderate; mediocre;
     ordinary. "A town of but middling size." --Hallam.
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           Plainly furnished, as beseemed the middling
           circumstances of its inhabitants.        --Hawthorne.
     [1913 Webster] -- {Mid"dling*ly}, adv. -- {Mid"dling*ness},
     n.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  middling
       adj : of no exceptional quality or ability; "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" [syn: {average}, {fair}, {mediocre}]
       n : any commodity of intermediate quality or size (especially
           when coarse particles of ground wheat are mixed with
           bran)
       adv : to a moderately sufficient extent or degree; "the shoes are
             priced reasonably"; "he is fairly clever with
             computers"; "they lived comfortably within reason"
             [syn: {reasonably}, {moderately}, {within reason}, {somewhat},
              {fairly}, {passably}] [ant: {unreasonably}, {unreasonably}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  58 Moby Thesaurus words for "middling":
     amidships, average, banal, betwixt and between, central, common,
     core, dull, equatorial, equidistant, fair, fair to middling,
     fairish, halfway, indifferent, inferior, insipid, interior,
     intermediary, intermediate, lackluster, mean, medial, median,
     mediocre, mediterranean, medium, mesial, mezzo, mid, middle,
     middle-of-the-road, middlemost, midland, midmost, midships, midway,
     moderate, modest, namby-pamby, normal, nuclear, of a kind,
     of a sort, of sorts, ordinary, passable, poor, respectable,
     routine, second-rate, so-so, standard, tedious, tolerable, usual,
     vapid, wishy-washy