Meaning of MIDDLING
| Pronunciation: | | 'midling
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- [n] any commodity of intermediate quality or size (especially when coarse particles of ground wheat are mixed with bran)
- [adv] to a moderately sufficient extent or degree; "the shoes are priced reasonably"; "he is fairly clever with computers"; "they lived comfortably within reason"
- [adj] of no 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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| | Synonyms: | | average, fair, fairly, mediocre, moderately, ordinary, passably, reasonably, somewhat, within reason |
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| | Antonyms: | | immoderately, unreasonably | | |
| | See Also: | | commodity, goods, trade goods | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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.
Plainly furnished, as beseemed the middling
circumstances of its inhabitants. --Hawthorne.
-- {Mid"dling*ly}, adv. -- {Mid"dling*ness}, n.
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| | Related Terms: | | 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, middlemost, middle-of-the-road, 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 |
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