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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. any commodity of intermediate quality or size (especially when coarse particles of ground wheat are mixed with bran);


ADJECTIVE (1)

1. lacking exceptional quality or ability;
- Example: "a novel of average merit"
- Example: "only a fair performance of the sonata"
- Example: "in fair health"
- Example: "the caliber of the students has gone from mediocre to above average"
- Example: "the performance was middling at best"
[syn: average, fair, mediocre, middling]


ADVERB (1)

1. to a moderately sufficient extent or degree;
- Example: "pretty big"
- Example: "pretty bad"
- Example: "jolly decent of him"
- Example: "the shoes are priced reasonably"
- Example: "he is fairly clever with computers"
[syn: reasonably, moderately, pretty, jolly, somewhat, fairly, middling, passably]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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.
   [1913 Webster]

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


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

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)