MIDDLING

• (noun) any commodity of intermediate quality or size (especially when coarse particles of ground wheat are mixed with bran)

• (adverb) 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"

  synonyms : fairly , jolly , moderately , passably , pretty , reasonably , somewhat

• (adj.) 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"

  synonyms : average , fair , mediocre

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