Hypertext Webster Gateway: "middling"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Middling \Mid"dling\, a.
Of middle rank, state, size, or quality; about equally
distant from the extremes; medium; moderate; mediocre;
ordinary. ``A town of but middling size.'' --Hallam.
Plainly furnished, as beseemed the middling
circumstances of its inhabitants. --Hawthorne.
-- {Mid"dling*ly}, adv. -- {Mid"dling*ness}, n.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
middling
adj : of no 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" [syn: {average}, {fair}, {mediocre}]
n : any commodity of intermediate quality or size (especially
when coarse particles of ground wheat are mixed with
bran)
adv : to a moderately sufficient extent or degree; "the shoes are
priced reasonably"; "he is fairly clever with
computers"; "they lived comfortably within reason"
[syn: {reasonably}, {moderately}, {within reason}, {somewhat},
{fairly}, {passably}] [ant: {unreasonably}, {unreasonably}]
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