middling
adjective
- 1
lacking exceptional quality or ability
a novel of average merit
only a fair performance of the sonata
adverb
- 1
to a moderately sufficient extent or degree
pretty big
pretty bad
noun
- 1
any commodity of intermediate quality or size (especially when coarse particles of ground wheat are mixed with bran)
Also useful for “middling”:Unscrambler— Rearrange the letters in “middling”