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Middling
[mid-ling] 
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middling
[mid-ling]
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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | adequate, okay |
| Synonyms: | all right, average, common, conventional, decent, fair, fairish, good, indifferent, intermediate, mean, mediocre, medium, moderate, modest, okay, ordinary, passable, run-of-the-mill, so-so, tolerable, traditional, unexceptional, unremarkable |
| Antonyms: | exceptional, extraordinary |
| Main Entry: | common |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | low, coarse |
| Synonyms: | Philistine, baseborn, characterless, cheap, colorless, crass, declassé, hack, hackneyed, impure, inferior, low-grade, mean, middling, nondescript, passable, pedestrian, plebeian, poor, prosy, raffish, second-class, second-rate, shoddy, sleazy, stale, trite, undistinguished, vulgar |
| Notes: | mutual applies to reciprocal relationships between two or more things; if something is held in common, use 'common' instead |
| Antonyms: | aristocratic, cultured, excellent, high, noble, refined, sophisticated, superior |
| Main Entry: | commonplace |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | usual, everyday |
| Synonyms: | boiler plate, characterless, clichéd, colorless, conventional, corny*, customary, dime-a-dozen, familiar, familiar tune, garden variety, hackneyed, humdrum, lowly, mainstream, matter-of-course, mediocre, middle-of-the-road, middling, mundane, natural, normal, obvious, ordinary, pedestrian, plebeian, prevalent, prosaic, run-of-the-mill, stale, starch, stereotyped, threadbare, trite, typical, uneventful, unexceptional, uninteresting, unnoteworthy, vanilla, widespread, workaday, worn-out |
| Antonyms: | exceptional, infrequent, peculiar, rare, uncommon, unusual |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | decent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sufficient, tolerable |
| Synonyms: | acceptable, adequate, all right, ample, average, comfortable, common, competent, enough, fair, fair to middling, good, mediocre, middling, moderately good, passable, presentable, reasonable, respectable, right, satisfactory, sufficing, unexceptional, unimpeachable, unobjectionable |
| Antonyms: | indecent, insufficient, intolerable, unsuitable |
| Main Entry: | fair |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | mediocre, satisfactory |
| Synonyms: | adequate, all right, average, common, commonplace, decent, fairish, indifferent, intermediate, mean, medium, middling, moderate, not bad, okay, ordinary, passable, pretty good, reasonable, respectable, satisfactory, so-so, tolerable, up to standard, usual |
| Main Entry: | few |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hardly any |
| Synonyms: | exiguous, few and far between, imperceptible, inconsequential, inconsiderable, infrequent, insufficient, lean, less, meager, middling, minor, minority, minute, negligible, not many, not too many, occasional, paltry, petty, piddling, rare, scant, scanty, scarce, scarcely any, scattered, scattering, seldom, semioccasional, short, skimpy, slender, slight, slim, some, sparse, sporadic, stingy, straggling, thin, trifling, uncommon, unfrequent, widely spaced |
| Antonyms: | many, much |
| Main Entry: | halfway |
| Part of Speech: | adverb |
| Definition: | not complete; in the middle |
| Synonyms: | comparatively, compromising, conciliatory, half the distance, imperfectly, in part, incompletely, insufficiently, medially, middling, midway, moderately, nearly, partially, partly, pretty*, rather, restrictedly, to a degree, to some extent, to the middle, unsatisfactorily |
| Antonyms: | completely, totally, wholly |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | inferior |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | poor, second-rate |
| Synonyms: | average, bad, base, common, déclassé, fair, good-for-nothing, hack*, imperfect, indifferent, junk*, lemon, lousy, low-grade, low-rent, mean, mediocre, middling, ordinary, paltry, poorer, sad, second-class, sorry*, substandard, tawdry, two-bit, worse, wretched |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | intermediate |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | middle, in-between |
| Synonyms: | average, between, center, central, common, compromising, fair, halfway, indifferent, intermediary, interposed, intervening, mean, medial, median, mediocre, medium, mid, middling, midway, moderate, neutral, so-so, standard, transitional |
| Antonyms: | end, extreme |
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