Sekirov Dictionary

middling

UK /ˈmɪdlɪŋ/US /ˈmɪd(ə)lɪŋ/

adjective 2
adverb 2
noun 2
forms 3
phrases 1

adjective2

•
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.
•
(UK, informal) In fairly good health.
- I am in a middling Way, between Healthy and Sick, hardly ever without a little Giddiness or Deafness, and sometimes both: So much for that. — 1728

adverb2

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(UK, informal) Fairly, moderately, somewhat.
- Iwami, otherwise Sekisju, is two days journey long, going from south to north, a middling good country, producing plenty of cannib, and affording some salt. — 1811
(UK, informal) Not too badly, with modest success.

noun2

Something of intermediate or average size, position, or quality.
[in the plural] Preceded by the: people of moderate means; members of the middle class.

forms

middlings · more middling · most middling

Phrases with middling

fair to middling
Only tolerably good; somewhat favorable.

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