middling : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: middling	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for middling
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
middling adv 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" Synonym(s): reasonably, moderately, pretty, jolly, somewhat, fairly, middling, passably Antonym(s): immoderately, unreasonably 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" Synonym(s): average, fair, mediocre, middling n any commodity of intermediate quality or size (especially when coarse particles of ground wheat are mixed with bran)
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. [bd]A town of but middling size.[b8] --Hallam. Plainly furnished, as beseemed the middling circumstances of its inhabitants. --Hawthorne. -- {Mid"dlingly}, adv. -- {Mid"dlingness}, n.