Definitions
to certain extent or degree
Word origin
The noun is probably from middle (noun) + -ing; the adjective is most likely derived from the noun, and the adverb from the adjective.
Used in a sentence
“The football team is never the worst or best in its league; its position is always middling.”
“All this is undoubtedly compatible with mediocrity, like every other profession; one can also be a middling poet, a middling orator, a middling author; but this done with genius is sublime.”
“Yet there he [Samuel Richardson] is, plump, prosaic, the most middling of middling men, and so domestically fussy that even his gift of weeping hardly guarantees that he will be a major figure.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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