Synonyms for middling
- adjective
- adverb
Synonyms by meaning
Adjective
1. Mediocre — of intermediate or average size, position, or quality; mediocre
mediocre, so-so informal, average, ordinary, decent, fair, moderate, lackluster US, lack-lustre UK, lacklustre UK, indifferent, tolerable, unexceptional, modest, medium, passable, meh, intermediate, pedestrian, respectable, inferior, mid slang
Adverb
1. Moderately — fairly, moderately, somewhat
moderately, fairly, somewhat, passably, pretty, reasonably, jolly
Definitions
- adj. 1
Of intermediate or average size, position, or quality; mediocre.
The football team is never the worst or best in its league; its position is always middling.
- adv. 1
Fairly, moderately, somewhat.
Iwami, otherwise Sekisju, is two days journey long, going from ſouth to north, a middling good country, producing plenty of cannib, and affording ſome ſalt.
Related words
- Word family
- middlingly middlingness
- Phrases
- fair to middling middling sort
Example sentences
- average His mental level is higher than the average boy's.
- decent No decent human being could possibly believe this.
- mediocre Don't excuse yourself into living a mediocre life.
- tolerable All sorrows should be tolerable, even if they are great.
By length
- 3 letters
- mid1, meh
- 4 letters
- fair1
- 5 letters
- jolly2
- 6 letters
- pretty2, medium3, fairly2, decent2, modest2
- 7 letters
- average3
- 8 letters
- somewhat2, ordinary4, moderate3, inferior4, mediocre4, passable3, passably3
- 9 letters
- tolerable4
- 10 letters
- reasonably4, pedestrian4, moderately4, lackluster3, lacklustre
- 11 letters
- respectable4, indifferent3
- 12 letters
- intermediate5
- 13 letters
- unexceptional
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (jolly2 = 2 syllables).