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1. Lacking exceptional quality or ability
   "the performance was middling at best"
   - average, fair, mediocre

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

1. To a moderately sufficient extent or degree
   - reasonably, moderately, pretty, jolly [Brit], somewhat, fairly, passably, averagely, middlingly

1. Put in the middle

Derived forms: middlings

See also: ordinary

Type of: commodity, good, lay, place, pose, position, put, set, trade good

Encyclopedia: Middle Middle, New Jersey