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middling
[ mid-ling ]
adjective
- medium, moderate, or average in size, quantity, or quality:
The returns on such a large investment may be only middling.
The restaurant's entrées are no better than middling.
- Older Use. in fairly good health.
adverb
- moderately; fairly.
noun
- middlings, any of various products or commodities of intermediate quality, grade, size, etc., as the coarser particles of ground wheat mingled with bran.
- Often middlings. Also called middling meat. Chiefly Midland and Southern U.S. salt pork or smoked side meat.
middling
/ ˈɪɪŋ /
adjective
- mediocre in quality, size, etc; neither good nor bad, esp in health (often in the phrase fair to middling )
adverb
- informal.moderately
middling well
Derived Forms
- ˈԲ, adverb
Other Word Forms
- dԲ· adverb
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of middling1
Idioms and Phrases
see fair to middling .Example Sentences
He was bad against the Thunder, middling against the Spurs and shook against the Suns and Nuggets.
More likely this middling thriller just needs a decorative garnish.
He was forced into action briefly in one game and provided the team an insurance policy after Stick’s middling preseason.
The main crime the duchess commits in “With Love, Meghan” is creating a middling show that is, at worst, inoffensive.
The ’70s was the decade of the prime-time TV special, usually built around a middling star and featuring talent from the airing network.
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