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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Middling \Mid"dling\, adjective 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}, adverb -- {Mid"dling*ness}, n.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
middling
adjective: 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" [syn: {average}, {fair}, {mediocre}]
noun: any commodity of intermediate quality or size (especially when coarse particles of ground wheat are mixed with bran)
adverb: to a moderately sufficient extent or degree; "the shoes are priced reasonably"; "he is fairly clever with computers"; "they lived comfortably within reason" [syn: {reasonably}, {moderately}, {within reason}, {somewhat}, {fairly}, {passably}] [ant: {unreasonably}, {unreasonably}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
58 Moby Thesaurus words for "middling": 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, middle-of-the-road, middlemost, 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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