MIDDLING

average, fair, mediocre, middling

(adjective) 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”

reasonably, moderately, pretty, jolly, somewhat, fairly, middling, passably

(adverb) to certain extent or degree; “pretty big”; “pretty bad”; “jolly decent of him”; “the shoes are priced reasonably”; “he is fairly clever with computers”

middling

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

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Adjective

middling (comparative more middling, superlative most middling)

Of intermediate or average size, position, or quality; mediocre.

(colloquial, regional Britain) In fairly good health.

Synonyms

• (intermediate or average in size, position, or quality): average, medium, unexceptional

Adverb

middling (comparative more middling, superlative most middling)

(colloquial, regional Britain) Fairly, moderately, somewhat.

(colloquial, regional Britain) Not too badly, with modest success.

Noun

middling (plural middlings)

Something of intermediate or average size, position, or quality.

(plural) Preceded by the: people of moderate means; members of the middle class.

Source: Wiktionary

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Mid"dling, a.

Definition: 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.

MIDDLE

Mid"dle, a. Etym: [OE. middel, AS. middel; akin to D. middel, OHG. muttil, G. mittel. Mid, a.]

1. Equally distant from the extreme either of a number of things or of one thing; mean; medial; as, the middle house in a row; a middle rank or station in life; flowers of middle summer; men of middle age.

2. Intermediate; intervening. Will, seeking good, finds many middle ends. Sir J. Davies.

Note: Middle is sometimes used in the formation of selfexplaining compounds; as, middle-sized, middle-witted. Middle Ages, the period of time intervening between the decline of the Roman Empire and the revival of letters. Hallam regards it as beginning with the sixth and ending with the fifteenth century.

– Middle class, in England, people who have an intermediate position between the aristocracy and the artisan class. It includes professional men, bankers, merchants, and small landed proprietors The middle-class electorate of Great Britain. M. Arnold.

– Middle distance. (Paint.) See Middle-ground.

– Middle English. See English, n., 2.

– Middle Kingdom, China.

– Middle oil (Chem.), that part of the distillate obtained from coal tar which passes over between 170º and 230º Centigrade; -- distinguished from the light, and the heavy or dead, oil.

– Middle passage, in the slave trade, that part of the Atlantic Ocean between Africa and the West Indies.

– Middle post. (Arch.) Same as King-post.

– Middle States, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware; which, at the time of the formation of the Union, occupied a middle position between the Eastern States (or New England) and the Southern States. [U.S.] -- Middle term (Logic), that term of a syllogism with which the two extremes are separately compared, and by means of which they are brought together in the conclusion. Brande.

– Middle tint (Paint.), a subdued or neutral tint. Fairholt.

– Middle voice. (Gram.) See under Voice.

– Middle watch, the period from midnight to four A. M.; also, the men on watch during that time. Ham. Nav. Encyc.

– Middle weight, a pugilist, boxer, or wrestler classed as of medium weight, i. e., over 140 and not over 160 lbs., in distinction from those classed as light weights, heavy weights, etc.

Mid"dle, n. Etym: [AS. middel. See Middle, a.]

Definition: The point or part equally distant from the extremities or exterior limits, as of a line, a surface, or a solid; an intervening point or part in space, time, or order of series; the midst; central portion; specif., the waist. Chaucer. "The middle of the land." Judg. ix. 37. In this, as in most questions of state, there is a middle. Burke.

Syn.

– See Midst.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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