Middling

Quick meaning: Middling is an adjective meaning Of intermediate or average size, position, or quality; mediocre.

Meaning

Of intermediate or average size, position, or quality; mediocre.

More Meanings

1. (colloquial, regional British) In fairly good health.
2. (colloquial, regional British) Fairly, moderately, somewhat.
3. (colloquial, regional British) Not too badly, with modest success.
4. Something of intermediate or average size, position, or quality.

Example Sentences

The football team is never the worst or best in its league; its position is always middling.

Despite its middling record, [Sam] Altman would also emerge from Loopt much better off than he’d started.

Rather, [Thomas] Holcroft uses his experiences as fooder while claiming the status of an "author" just as more middling writers did.

All this is undoubtedly compatible with mediocrity, like every other profession; one can also be a middling poet, a middling orator, a middling author; but this done with genius is sublime.

Word Forms

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Synonyms for middling

Depending on context, synonyms include average, medium, unexceptional, crappy, decent, indifferent.

Antonyms for middling

Common opposites include immoderately, unreasonably.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include fairly, moderately, somewhat, average, reasonably, passably.

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