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
    mediocre, average, fair,
  • (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
    fairly, jolly, moderately, passably, pretty, reasonably, somewhat,

Nouns

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

Synonyms

mediocre average fair fairly jolly moderately passably pretty reasonably somewhat

Antonyms

immoderately unreasonably

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