English dictionary
middling
adjectivePronunciation
ˈmɪdlɪŋ
Audio pronunciation
Parts of speech
Definitions
adjective
- lacking exceptional quality or ability
adverb
- to certain extent or degree
noun
- any commodity of intermediate quality or size (especially when coarse particles of ground wheat are mixed with bran)
Example sentences
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
pretty big
pretty bad
jolly decent of him
the shoes are priced reasonably
he is fairly clever with computers