middling
-
(s) 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
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(r) 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
Nouns
- (n) any commodity of intermediate quality or size (especially when coarse particles of ground wheat are mixed with bran)