Nouns (1)
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middling
n. any commodity of intermediate quality or size (especially when coarse particles of ground wheat are mixed with bran)
Verbs (0)
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Adverbs (8)
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reasonably, moderately, pretty, jolly, somewhat, fairly, middling, passably
adv. to a moderately sufficient extent or degree; "pretty big"; "pretty bad"; "jolly decent of him"; "the shoes are priced reasonably"; "he is fairly clever with computers"
Adjectives (5)
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middling
adj. 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"
average, fair, mediocre, middling
adj. 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"
Fuzzynyms (25)
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mediocre
adj. poor to middling in quality; "there have been good and mediocre and bad artists"
adequate, passable, fair to middling, tolerable
adj. about average; acceptable; "more than adequate as a secretary"
plain, lay, popular, nontechnical, unspecialized, untechnical
adj. not characteristic of or skilled in applied arts and sciences; "nontechnical aspects of the job"; "nontechnical training"; "an untechnical reader"; "in clear effective nontechnical language"
normal, average
adj. conforming with or constituting a norm or standard or level or type or social norm; not abnormal; "serve wine at normal room temperature"; "normal diplomatic relations"; "normal working hours"; "normal word order"; "normal curiosity"; "the normal course of events"
average, ordinary
adj. lacking special distinction, rank, or status; commonly encountered; "average people"; "the ordinary (or common) man in the street"
pedestrian, prosaic, prosy, earthbound
adj. lacking wit or imagination; "a pedestrian movie plot"
satisfactory, acceptable
adj. meeting requirements; "the step makes a satisfactory seat"
tied(p), even, level(p)
adj. of the score in a contest; "the score is tied"
balanced
adj. being in a state of proper equilibrium; "the carefully balanced seesaw"; "a properly balanced symphony orchestra"; "a balanced assessment of intellectual and cultural history"; "a balanced blend of whiskeys"; "the educated man shows a balanced development of all his powers"
Synonyms (20)
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indifferent
adj. of no distinctive quality or characteristics or type
neutralized, neutralised
adj. made neutral in some respect; deprived of distinctive characteristics
viewless
adj. not having or expressing opinions or views
commonplace
adj. completely ordinary and unremarkable; "air travel has now become commonplace"; "commonplace everyday activities"
characterless, nondescript
adj. lacking distinct or individual characteristics; dull and uninteresting; "women dressed in nondescript clothes"; "a nondescript novel"
common
adj. to be expected; standard; "common decency"
everyday, mundane, quotidian, routine, unremarkable, workaday
adj. found in the ordinary course of events; "a placid everyday scene"; "it was a routine day"; "there's nothing quite like a real...train conductor to add color to a quotidian commute"- Anita Diamant
indifferent, so-so(p)
adj. being neither good nor bad; "an indifferent performance"; "a gifted painter but an indifferent actor"; "her work at the office is passable"; "a so-so golfer"; "feeling only so-so"; "prepared a tolerable dinner"; "a tolerable working knowledge of French"
run-of-the-mill, run-of-the-mine, mine run, unexceptional
adj. not special in any way; "run-of-the-mill boxing"; "your run-of-the-mine college graduate"; "a unexceptional an incident as can be found in a lawyer's career"
Antonyms (4)
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unreasonably, immoderately
adv. to a degree that exceeds the bounds or reason or moderation; "his prices are unreasonably high"
unreasonably, immoderately
adv. to a degree that exceeds the bounds or reason or moderation; "his prices are unreasonably high"
middling
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