'Middling' definitions:
Definition of 'middling'
(from WordNet)
adverb
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" [syn: reasonably, moderately, pretty, jolly, somewhat, fairly, middling, passably] [ant: immoderately, unreasonably]
adjective
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" [syn: average, fair, mediocre, middling]
noun
Any commodity of intermediate quality or size (especially when coarse particles of ground wheat are mixed with bran)
Definition of 'Middling'
From: 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. [1913 Webster]
- Plainly furnished, as beseemed the middling circumstances of its inhabitants. --Hawthorne. [1913 Webster] -- {Mid"dling*ly}, adv. -- {Mid"dling*ness}, n. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'middling'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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
Words containing 'Middling'
- Middle,
- Middlingly,
- Middlings,
- middles,
- Excluded middle,
- From fair to middling,
- Middle Ages,
- Middle America,
- Middle American,
- Middle East,
- Middle English,
- Middle Island,
- Middle Kingdom,
- Middle Point,
- Middle River,
- Middle States,
- Middle Temple,
- Middle Tenor,
- Middle Valley,
- Middle Village,
- Middle West,
- Middle class,
- Middle distance,
- Middle oil,
- Middle passage,
- Middle post,
- Middle rib,
- Middle term,
- Middle tint,
- Middle voice,
- Middle watch,
- Middle weight,
- fair to middling,
- middle age,
- middle atlantic,
- middle buster,
- middle c,
- middle ear,
- middle eastern,
- middle finger,
- middle greek,
- middle ground,
- middle irish,
- middle mute,
- middle name,
- middle of the road,
- middle of the roader,
- middle paleolithic,
- middle school,
- Middle Island, NY,
- Middle Point, OH,
- Middle River, MD,
- Middle River, MN,
- Middle Valley, TN,
- Middle Village, WI,
- Middle-age,
- Middle-aged,
- Middle-earth,
- Middle-ground,
- law of the excluded middle,
- middle cerebral artery,
- middle cerebral vein,
- middle high german,
- middle low german,
- middle meningeal artery,
- middle temporal vein,
- middle thyroid vein,
- middle-class,
- middle-level,
- middle-of-the-road,
- middle-of-the-roader,
- middle-of-the-roadism,
- deep middle cerebral vein,
- lower-middle-class,
- middle-aged man,
- middle-ear deafness,
- superficial middle cerebral vein,
- upper-middle-class,
- lower-class vs middle-class vs upper-class low-class