middling

Plural: middlings

Noun

• The coarse flour left after milling; a cut of pork.
• any commodity of intermediate quality or size (especially when coarse particles of ground wheat are mixed with bran)
• Something of intermediate or average size, position, or quality.
• Something of intermediate or average size, position, or quality.
• Preceded by the: people of moderate means; members of the middle class.

Verb

• put in the middle

Adjective Satellite

• lacking exceptional quality or ability
  • "the performance was middling at best"

Adverb

• to a moderately sufficient extent or degree

Adj

• Of intermediate or average size, position, or quality; mediocre.
• In fairly good health.

Adv

• Fairly, moderately, somewhat.
• Not too badly, with modest success.

Examples

• The football team is never the worst or best in its league; its position is always middling.
• The word MIDDLING provided a decent score, but not a game-changer.

Synonyms

average, fair, fairly, jolly, mediocre, middle, moderately, passably, pretty, reasonably, somewhat, medium, unexceptional

Antonyms

immoderately, unreasonably

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