- average, fair, mediocre, middling - 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"
Antonym: extraordinary (indirect, via ordinary)
- reasonably, moderately, within reason, somewhat, fairly, middling, passably - to a moderately sufficient extent or degree; "the shoes are priced reasonably"; "he is fairly clever with computers"; "they lived comfortably within reason"
- middling - any commodity of intermediate quality or size (especially when coarse particles of ground wheat are mixed with bran)
--1 is a kind of commodity, trade goods, goods