middling English

Meaning middling meaning

What does middling mean?

middling

— noun any commodity of intermediate quality or size (especially when coarse particles of ground wheat are mixed with bran)

— adjective (= average, fair, mediocre) lacking 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

— adverb (= reasonably, moderately, pretty, jolly, fairly) to a moderately sufficient extent or degree pretty big pretty bad jolly decent of him the shoes are priced reasonably he is fairly clever with computers

Synonyms middling synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as middling?

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mediocre

moderate

medium

average

middle

fair

moderately

fairly

fair to middling

unremarkable

somewhat

so-so

second-rate

reasonably

pretty

passably

ordinary

meagrely

meagerly

jolly

intermediate

indifferent

uninspired

unexciting

unexceptional

undistinguished

tolerably

temperate

size

semis

semi-finished products

secondary

second class

satisfactory

run-of-the-mill

quite

quality

prosaic

pedestrian

passable

nonpartisan

neutral

moderately large

mine run

middling product

middle-class

medium rank

mediocral

mean

lacklustre