Middling
11middling — [[t]mɪ̱dəlɪŋ[/t]] ADJ: usu ADJ n If you describe a quality such as the size of something as middling, you mean that it is average. The Beatles enjoyed only middling success until 1963. ...a man of middling height. Syn: average …
12middling — /ˈmɪdlɪŋ / (say midling) adjective 1. medium in size, quality, grade, rank, etc.; moderately large, good, etc. 2. Colloquial in fairly good health. 3. Colloquial mediocre; second rate. –adverb 4. Colloquial moderately; fairly. –noun 5. ( …
13middling — adj., n., & adv. adj. 1 a moderately good (esp. fair to middling). b colloq. (of a person s health) fairly well. c second rate. 2 (of goods) of the second of three grades. n. (in pl.) middling goods, esp. flour of medium fineness. adv. fairly or… …
14middling — mid|dling [ mıdlıŋ ] adjective average in quality or size: fair to middling (=slightly better than average): an actor of fair to middling ability …
15middling — adjective informal not very good or bad, not very big or small etc; average: fair to middling (=about average): How are you? Oh, fair to middling …
16middling — adjective a town of the middling kind, neither rich nor poor Syn: average, standard, normal, middle of the road; moderate, ordinary, commonplace, everyday, workaday, tolerable, passable; run of the mill, fair, mediocre, undistinguished,… …
17middling — UK [ˈmɪd(ə)lɪŋ] / US adjective average in quality or size fair to middling (= slightly better than average): an actor of fair to middling ability …
18middling — I. adjective Date: 15th century 1. of middle, medium, or moderate size, degree, or quality 2. mediocre, second rate 3. of, relating to, or being a middle class • middling adverb • middlingly adverb II …
19middling — adjective a) of intermediate or average size, position or quality; mediocre The football team is never the worst or best in its league; its position is always middling. b) in fairly good health Syn: medium, average …
20middling — Synonyms and related words: amidships, average, banal, betwixt and between, central, common, core, dull, equatorial, equidistant, fair, fair to middling, fairish, halfway, indifferent, inferior, insipid, interior, intermediary, intermediate,… …
