Middling Synonyms and Antonyms

mĭdlĭng, -lĭn
Commonplace
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. fair-to-middling
  2. moderately good
  3. ordinary
Adequate, OK
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. average
  2. fair
  3. mediocre
  4. common
  5. indifferent
  6. medium
  7. moderate
  8. okay
  9. ordinary
  10. passable
  11. so-so
  12. tolerable
Antonyms:
  1. exceptional
  2. extraordinary
To a moderately sufficient extent or degree
(Adverb)
Synonyms:
  1. reasonably
  2. moderately
  3. pretty
  4. jolly
  5. somewhat
  6. fairly
  7. passably
Mediocre.
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. average

Words Related to Middling

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. conventional
  2. traditional
  3. lower-class
  4. lower-middle-class

Middling Sentence Examples

  • He was of middling stature and dark complexion.

  • The rule is that on the first of the two months the seller of " futures " may, and before the last day of the second month must, deliver cotton against them, or, what comes to the same thing, buy back the " futures " on the basis of the price of " spot " cotton of middling grade.

  • The latter benefited the emergent middling tenantry more than they did the rural and urban poor.

  • She is described as "not one of the handsomest women in the world; she is of a middling stature, swarthy complexion, long neck, wide mouth, bosom not much raised, and in fact has nothing but the English king's great appetite, and her eyes which are black and beautiful, and take great effect."

  • Apart from medieval and other very uncertain data, such as the Sabbath day's journey being 2000 middling paces for 2000 cubits, it appears that Josephus, using the Greek or Roman cubit, gives half as many more to each dimension of the temple than does the Talmud; this shows the cubit used in the Talmud for temple measures to be certainly not under 25 in.

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