middling

nouns

any commodity of intermediate quality or size (especially when coarse particles of ground wheat are mixed with bran)

middling

is a type of (narrower)

articles of commerce

commodity, good, trade good

adjectives

lacking 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"

average, fair, mediocre, middling

adverbs

to a moderately sufficient extent or degree

"pretty big"; "pretty bad"; "jolly decent of him"; "the shoes are priced reasonably"; "he is fairly clever with computers"

fairly, jolly, middling, moderately, passably, pretty, reasonably, somewhat