middling
adj : of no 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}]
n : any commodity of intermediate quality or size (especially
when coarse particles of ground wheat are mixed with
bran)
adv : to a moderately sufficient extent or degree; "the shoes are
priced reasonably"; "he is fairly clever with
computers"; "they lived comfortably within reason"
[syn: {reasonably}, {moderately}, {within reason}, {somewhat},
{fairly}, {passably}] [ant: {unreasonably}, {unreasonably}]