middling

/mid-ling/US // ˈmɪd lɪŋ //UK // (ˈmɪdlɪŋ) //

中等水平,中等,中等水平的,中等规模

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective

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- : medium, moderate, or average in size, quantity, or quality: The returns on such a large investment may be only middling.
- : mediocre; ordinary; commonplace; pedestrian: The restaurant's entrées are no better than middling.
- : Older Use. in fairly good health.

adv.副词 adverb

n.名词 noun

1
- : middlings, any of various products or commodities of intermediate quality, grade, size, etc., as the coarser particles of ground wheat mingled with bran.
- : Often middlings .Also called middling meat .Chiefly Midland and Southern U.S. salt pork or smoked side meat.

adj.adequate, okay

Synonyms

You could have schools with very middling results that are serving very disadvantaged kids and really contributing quite a lot to their education.
I could ride a shortboard, get the occasional good wave, and stay out of the way of better surfers, but I had always been middling at best.
The Clippers had little fan support, and they oscillated between being league bottom-dwellers and a middling franchise.
When a once-celebrated author winds up teaching in a middling MFA program, he’s sure he’s squandered his chance at lasting success — until one of his promising pupils dies, inspiring the novelist to claim the student’s book idea as his own.
Murphy had middling approval ratings before the pandemic, with one in five voters holding no opinion of how he was doing.
He was living under the alias Alonso Rivera Muñoz as a middling real estate developer and art collector in Querétaro.
After a few middling seasons from the revered hometown team, a few of the neighbors raised their eyebrows in surprise at the news.
What if he had tried to come back, only to play a couple middling seasons and then grudgingly retire or, worse, become a backup?
Unlike hoity-toity displays of pedigree fluff, the Average Joe Cat Show is a celebration of middling felines.
This is a middling jobs report for the middle of the business cycle.

/mid-ling/US // ˈmɪd lɪŋ //UK // (ˈmɪdlɪŋ) //

中等水平,中等,中等水平的,中等规模

adj.形容词 adjective

1
- : medium, moderate, or average in size, quantity, or quality: The returns on such a large investment may be only middling.
- : mediocre; ordinary; commonplace; pedestrian: The restaurant's entrées are no better than middling.
- : Older Use. in fairly good health.

adv.副词 adverb

n.名词 noun

1
- : middlings, any of various products or commodities of intermediate quality, grade, size, etc., as the coarser particles of ground wheat mingled with bran.
- : Often middlings .Also called middling meat .Chiefly Midland and Southern U.S. salt pork or smoked side meat.

adj.adequate, okay

Synonyms

You could have schools with very middling results that are serving very disadvantaged kids and really contributing quite a lot to their education.
I could ride a shortboard, get the occasional good wave, and stay out of the way of better surfers, but I had always been middling at best.
The Clippers had little fan support, and they oscillated between being league bottom-dwellers and a middling franchise.
When a once-celebrated author winds up teaching in a middling MFA program, he’s sure he’s squandered his chance at lasting success — until one of his promising pupils dies, inspiring the novelist to claim the student’s book idea as his own.
Murphy had middling approval ratings before the pandemic, with one in five voters holding no opinion of how he was doing.
He was living under the alias Alonso Rivera Muñoz as a middling real estate developer and art collector in Querétaro.
After a few middling seasons from the revered hometown team, a few of the neighbors raised their eyebrows in surprise at the news.
What if he had tried to come back, only to play a couple middling seasons and then grudgingly retire or, worse, become a backup?
Unlike hoity-toity displays of pedigree fluff, the Average Joe Cat Show is a celebration of middling felines.
This is a middling jobs report for the middle of the business cycle.