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Middling

Middling Meaning & Definition
Middling Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Middling?

[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"
[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"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Middling: average | fair | fairly | mediocre | moderately | ordinary | passably | reasonably | somewhat | within reason

Related Terms | Find terms related to 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 | middlemost | middle-of-the-road | 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

See Also | commodity | goods | trade goods

Middling In Webster's Dictionary

\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. Plainly furnished, as beseemed the middling circumstances of its inhabitants. --Hawthorne. -- {Mid"dling*ly}, adv. -- {Mid"dling*ness}, n.

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