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MIDDLING
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
Any commodity of intermediate quality or size (especially when coarse particles of ground wheat are mixed with bran)
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Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("middling" is a kind of...):
commodity; good; trade good (articles of commerce)
II. (adjective)
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Meaning:
Lacking exceptional quality or ability
Example:
the performance was middling at best
Synonyms:
average; fair; mediocre; middling
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Similar:
ordinary (not exceptional in any way especially in quality or ability or size or degree)
III. (verb)
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-ing form of the verb middle
IV. (adverb)
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Meaning:
To certain extent or degree
Example:
he is fairly clever with computers
Synonyms:
fairly; jolly; middling; moderately; passably; pretty; reasonably; somewhat
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