middling :: Lexipedia - Where words have meaning

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

reasonably, moderately, meaningly, somewhat, fairly, passably, within reason

adv. to a moderately sufficient extent or degree; "the shoes are priced reasonably"; "he is fairly clever with computers"; "they lived comfortably within reason"

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"

fair, average, mediocre

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"

poor, mediocre, second-rate

adj. moderate to inferior in quality; "they improved the quality from mediocre to above average"

fair, adequate, passable, fair to middling

adj. about average; acceptable; "more than adequate as a secretary"

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"

ordinary

adj. lacking special distinction, rank, or status; commonly encountered; "average people"; "the ordinary (or common) man in the street"

pedestrian, prosaic, prosy

adj. lacking wit or imagination; "a pedestrian movie plot"

acceptable, satisfactory

adj. meeting requirements; "the step makes a satisfactory seat"

even, tied

adj. of the score in a contest; "the score is tied"

balanced

adj. being in a state of proper balance or 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"

indifferent

adj. of no distinctive quality or characteristics or type

neutralized

adj. made neutral in some respect; deprived of distinctive characteristics

viewless

adj. not having or expressing opinions or views

commonplace, trivial, banal

adj. obvious and dull; "trivial conversation"; "commonplace prose"

nondescript, characterless

adj. lacking distinct or individual characteristics; dull and uninteresting; "women dressed in nondescript clothes"; "a nondescript novel"

common, simple

adj. to be expected; standard; "common decency"

routine, usual, everyday, mundane, quotidian, workaday, unremarkable

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

tolerable, indifferent, so-so

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, 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"

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