middling

[US]/'mɪd(ə)lɪŋ/

[UK]/'mɪdlɪŋ/

Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. average quality
adj. of average quality; mediocre
adv. moderately
v. to place in the middle.

fair to middling

a middling performance

a school of middling size

gave a middling performance at best.

he had had a good to middling season.

the village contained no poor households but a lot of middling ones.

In a middling rainfall condition, calcium eluviate and movement in uprightness direction.

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