- of average size, quality, status, etc. synonym moderate, unremarkable
- a golfer of middling talent
- ‘Do you like your coffee weak or strong?’ ‘Oh, middling, please.’
Extra Examples- The tax affects 40 million people on middling incomes.
- There was a transfer of wealth from the very rich to the middling rich.
Word Originlate Middle English (originally Scots): probably from mid- + the adverbial suffix -ling.Definitions on the go
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Idioms
See middling in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionaryfair to middling
- not particularly good or bad
- ‘How are you feeling today?’ ‘Oh, fair to middling.’
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