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   middling

   /ˈmɪdəlɪŋ/

   adjective

   • 1. moderate or average in size, amount, or rank: "people on middling incomes"
   • ▪ neither very good nor very bad: "he had had a good to middling season"
   • ▪ (of a person) in reasonably good but not perfect health: "‘How are you?’ - ‘Middling,’ he admitted"

   noun

   • 1. bulk goods of medium grade, especially flour of medium fineness.

   adverb

   • 1. fairly or moderately: informal, dated "middling rich"

   Word Origin late Middle English (originally Scots): probably from mid- + the adverbial suffix -ling.

   Derivatives

   • 1. middlingly adverb

   Scrabble Points: 13

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