middling
About 0.53 uses per million words.
Meaning
- adjective 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.
- adjective In fairly good health.
- adverb Fairly, moderately, somewhat.
- adverb Not too badly, with modest success.
- noun Something of intermediate or average size, position, or quality. Preceded by the: people of moderate means; members of the middle class.
- noun Preceded by the: people of moderate means; members of the middle class.
Similar words
fairly moderately somewhat average reasonably passably fair ordinary mediocre within reason
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Word family
fair to middling middlingly middlings
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