middling

Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary

I - noun

any commodity of intermediate quality or size (especially when coarse particles of ground wheat are mixed with bran)
• Hypernyms:
commodity, trade good, good

II - adjective

lacking 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
• Similar to:
ordinary
• Derivationally related forms:
mediocrity (for: mediocre), averageness (for: average)

III - adverb

to a moderately sufficient extent or degree
- pretty big
- pretty bad
- jolly decent of him
- the shoes are priced reasonably
- he is fairly clever with computers
• Syn:
reasonably, moderately, pretty, jolly, somewhat,
fairly, passably
• Ant:
immoderately (for: moderately), unreasonably (for: reasonably)
• Derived from adjective:
moderate (for: moderately), reasonable (for: reasonably)

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  average, fair, mediocre, reasonably, moderately, pretty, jolly, somewhat, fairly, passably
• Từ trái nghĩa / Antonyms:
  unreasonably, immoderately