The meaning of MIDDLING is of middle, medium, or moderate size, degree, or quality. How to use middling in a sentence.

Add to word list medium or average; neither very good nor very bad: a middling amount (Definition of middling from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Definition of middling adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

Define middling. middling synonyms, middling pronunciation, middling translation, English dictionary definition of middling. adj. 1. Of medium size, position, or quality.

3 days ago · middling (comparative more middling, superlative most middling) Of intermediate or average size, position, or quality; mediocre. quotations The football team is never the worst or best in …

If you describe a quality such as the size of something as middling, you mean that it is average. The Beatles enjoyed only middling success until 1963. ...a man of middling height.

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MIDDLING definition: medium, moderate, or average in size, quantity, or quality. See examples of middling used in a sentence.

There are nine meanings listed in OED's entry for the adjective middling, two of which are labelled obsolete. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.

a middling profit a middling performance The food was fair to middling. [=just average; not especially good]