[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

middling \mid"dling\, a.
   of middle rank, state, size, or quality; about equally
   distant from the extremes; medium; moderate; mediocre;
   ordinary. "a town of but middling size." --hallam.
   1913 webster

         plainly furnished, as beseemed the middling
         circumstances of its inhabitants.        --hawthorne.
   1913 webster -- mid"dlingly, adv. -- mid"dlingness,
   n.
   1913 webster
see also:
mid"dlingly mid"dlingness 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

middling
     adj : of no 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" syn: average, fair, mediocre
     n : any commodity of intermediate quality or size especially
         when coarse particles of ground wheat are mixed with
         bran
     adv : to a moderately sufficient extent or degree; "the shoes are
           priced reasonably"; "he is fairly clever with
           computers"; "they lived comfortably within reason"
           syn: reasonably, moderately, within reason, somewhat,
            fairly, passably ant: unreasonably, unreasonably
see also:
average fair mediocre reasonably moderately within reason 
somewhat fairly passably unreasonably 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

58 moby thesaurus words for "middling":
   amidships, average, banal, betwixt and between, central, common,
   core, dull, equatorial, equidistant, fair, fair to middling,
   fairish, halfway, indifferent, inferior, insipid, interior,
   intermediary, intermediate, lackluster, mean, medial, median,
   mediocre, mediterranean, medium, mesial, mezzo, mid, middle,
   middle-of-the-road, middlemost, midland, midmost, midships, midway,
   moderate, modest, namby-pamby, normal, nuclear, of a kind,
   of a sort, of sorts, ordinary, passable, poor, respectable,
   routine, second-rate, so-so, standard, tedious, tolerable, usual,
   vapid, wishy-washy

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