middling

middling is a 8-letter English word with 4 senses as adjective, noun, and adverb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Of middle rank, state, size, or quality; about equally distant from the extremes; medium; moderate; mediocre; ordinary. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

8 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 17 · 4 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Of middle rank, state, size, or quality; about equally distant from the extremes; medium; moderate; mediocre; ordinary.
2. noun. any commodity of intermediate quality or size (especially when coarse particles of ground wheat are mixed with bran)
3. adjective. lacking exceptional quality or ability

   "a novel of average merit"

   "only a fair performance of the sonata"

   Synonyms: average, fair, mediocre

4. adverb. to a moderately sufficient extent or degree

   "pretty big"

   "pretty bad"

   Synonyms: fairly, jolly, moderately, passably, pretty, reasonably, somewhat

Synonyms

average, fair, mediocre, fairly, jolly, moderately, passably, pretty, reasonably, somewhat

Common word forms

middle, middlings, middlingly, middlingness

Words from these letters

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