middling
    adv 1: 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]
    adj 1: 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]
    n 1: any commodity of intermediate quality or size (especially
         when coarse particles of ground wheat are mixed with bran)

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.
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         Plainly furnished, as beseemed the middling
         circumstances of its inhabitants.        --Hawthorne.
   [1913 Webster] -- Mid"dling*ly, adv. -- Mid"dling*ness,
   n.
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