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)
   "The farmer sold the middlings as animal feed"

1. To a certain extent or degree
   "The food was middling good";
   - reasonably, moderately, pretty [informal], somewhat, fairly, passably, middlingly, averagely

1. Put in the middle
   "They middled the most important display in the store window"

Derived forms: middlings

See also: ordinary

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

Antonym: immoderately

Encyclopedia: Middle, New Jersey