1. (

• middling

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

1. (

• middle

) put in the middle ;

1. (

• average ,
• fair ,
• mediocre ,
• middling

) 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" ;

1. (

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

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