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1. (adj.) middling
medium, moderate, or average in size, quantity, or quality.
2. middling
mediocre; ordinary; commonplace; pedestrian.
3. middling
Older Use. in fairly good health.
4. (adv.) middling
moderately; fairly.
5. (n.) middling
middlings,
6. middling
any of various products or commodities of intermediate quality, grade, size, etc.
7. middling
coarser particles of ground wheat mingled with bran.
Etymology: (1425–75; late ME (Scots))
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1. (adj) middling
any commodity of intermediate quality or size (especially when coarse particles of ground wheat are mixed with bran)
2. (adverb) average, fair, mediocre, middling
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"
3. (adverb) reasonably, moderately, pretty, jolly, somewhat, fairly, middling, passably
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"
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Webster Dictionary |
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1. (adj) middling
of middle rank, state, size, or quality; about equally distant from the extremes; medium; moderate; mediocre; ordinary
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Sense: average
He's neither tall nor short, but of middling height.
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 Afrikaans: middelmatig |
 Arabic: مُتَوَسِّط |
 Bulgarian: среден |
 Brazilian: mediano |
 Czech: střední |
 German: mittler |
 Danish: gennemsnit; middel- |
 Greek: μέτριος |
 Spanish: mediano, regular |
 Estonian: keskmine |
 Farsi: میان |
 Finnish: keskinkertainen |
 French: moyen |
 Hebrew: מְמוּצָע |
 Hindi: मध्य श्रेणी का |
 Croatian: prosječan |
 Hungarian: közepes |
 Indonesian: sedang |
 Icelandic: meðal-, miðlungs |
 Italian: medio |
 Japanese: 中くらいの |
 Korean: 평균의 |
 Lithuanian: vidutinis, vidutiniškas |
 Latvian: vidējs, vidusmēra- |
 Malay: sedang |
 Dutch: gemiddels |
 Norwegian: middels, mellom-, middelm |
 Polish: średni |
 Persian: میان |
 Pashto: اوسط |
 Portuguese: mediano |
 Romanian: mediu |
 Russian: средний |
 Slovak: stredný |
 Slovenian: srednji, povprečen |
 Serbian: osrednji |
 Swedish: ordinär, medel- |
 Thai: ปานกลาง |
 Turkish: orta |
 Taiwanese: 中等的 |
 Ukrainian: посередній |
 Urdu: درمیانہ |
 Vietnamese: trung bình |
 Chinese: 中等的 |
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