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adj. Of medium size, position, or quality.

adj. Mediocre. See Synonyms at average.

n. Chiefly Southern U.S. Pork or bacon cut from between the ham and shoulder of a pig. Often used in the plural.

n. Chiefly Southern U.S. Salt pork. Also called middling meat.

n. Any of various products, such as partially refined petroleum or ore, that are intermediate in quality, size, price, or grade.

n. Coarsely ground wheat mixed with bran.

ad. Informal Fairly; moderately: "a middling nice cake” ( Hatfield MA Valley Advocate).

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

adj. In fairly good health.

adj. Of middle rank, state, size, or quality; about equally distant from the extremes; medium; moderate; mediocre; ordinary.

Medium in rank, condition, or degree; intermediate; hence, only medium; neither good nor bad; neither one thing nor the other: as, a fruit of middling quality.

Not in good health, yet not very ill; also, in Scotland, in fairly good health.

Of medium quality: a specific commercial grade of flour, pork, etc. See fair to middling, under fair.

n. The part of a gun-stock between the grasp and the tail-pipe or ramrod-thimble.

n. That part of a hog which lies between the ham and the shoulder; a side of bacon.

n. plural In milling, the parts of a kernel of grain next the skin of the berry, largely composed of gluten and considered the most nutritious part.

n. plural The coarser particles resulting from milling, intermingled with a certain quantity of bran and foreign matters,used as feed for farm stock; canaille.

Tolerably; moderately.

n. plural The finest kind of wheat bran.

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

adj. lacking exceptional quality or ability

ad. to a moderately sufficient extent or degree

"Joshua Rothkopf, senior film writer at Time Out New York, hands out a maximum of six stars (which unintentionally enables studios to label his middling recommendations as four-star reviews in ads)."

ordinary   

trade good    commodity    good   

middling gossip   

medium    moderate    mediocre    ordinary    average   

middle   

fiddling    piddling    twiddling   

so-so    mediocre    passable    tolerable    well-to-do    inconsiderable    humbler    landowning    well-off    second-rate