English adjective: middling | |||
1. | middling lacking exceptional quality or ability | ||
Samples | 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 | average, fair, mediocre | ||
Similar | ordinary | ||
Antonyms | extraordinary | ||
English noun: middling | |||
1. | middling (artifact) any commodity of intermediate quality or size (especially when coarse particles of ground wheat are mixed with bran) | ||
Broader (hypernym) | commodity, good, trade good | ||
English adverb: middling | |||
1. | middling to a moderately sufficient extent or degree | ||
Samples | Pretty big. Pretty bad. Jolly decent of him. The shoes are priced reasonably. He is fairly clever with computers. | ||
Synonyms | fairly, jolly, moderately, passably, pretty, reasonably, somewhat | ||
Antonyms | immoderately, unreasonably | ||