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middling

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

中等水平,中等,中等水平的,中等规模

Related Words

so-so一般般,一般,马马虎虎,一般吧mediocre平平淡淡,平凡的,平庸的,平庸passable合格的,合格,可通,可通的run-of-the-mill普通的,平庸的,常规的,平庸之辈medium介质,媒介,中型,中等okay好的,好吧,好了,还好fair公平,公正,公平的,公正的average平均,平均数,平均水平,平均而言good很好,不错,好,好的common常见的,普通,共同,共同的intermediate中级,中级的,中级阶段,中级别的ordinary普通,普通的,寻常,一般moderate温和的,温和,温文尔雅,温顺的mean意味着,是指,意思是说,意思是all right好的,好了,好吧,好啦conventional常规的,传统的,常规,传统decent合适的,像样的,体面的,正经的indifferent无动于衷,漠不关心,漠不关心的,无动于衷的modest谦虚,谦虚的,谦逊的,谦逊tolerable可容忍的,可忍受的,可接受的,可容忍

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 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
  1. 1
    • : moderately; fairly.
n.名词 noun
  1. 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.

Synonyms & Antonyms

adj.adequate, okay
Synonyms
mediocre平平淡淡,平凡的,平庸的,平庸passable合格的,合格,可通,可通的run-of-the-mill普通的,平庸的,常规的,平庸之辈so-so一般般,一般,马马虎虎,一般吧average平均,平均数,平均水平,平均而言common常见的,普通,共同,共同的fair公平,公正,公平的,公正的good很好,不错,好,好的intermediate中级,中级的,中级阶段,中级别的mean意味着,是指,意思是说,意思是medium介质,媒介,中型,中等moderate温和的,温和,温文尔雅,温顺的okay好的,好吧,好了,还好ordinary普通,普通的,寻常,一般all right好的,好了,好吧,好啦conventional常规的,传统的,常规,传统decent合适的,像样的,体面的,正经的fairish白皙的,白皙,公平,公平的indifferent无动于衷,漠不关心,漠不关心的,无动于衷的modest谦虚,谦虚的,谦逊的,谦逊tolerable可容忍的,可忍受的,可接受的,可容忍traditional传统的,传统unexceptional不平凡,平平无奇,平凡的,不寻常unremarkable不起眼的,不显眼的,不起眼,不显眼

Examples

  • 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.

  • I presume there will be more middling and half middling yields within twenty miles of Paris than in all Belgium.

  • Nothing keeps longer than a middling fortune, and nothing melts away sooner than a large one.

  • She worked me middling hard for about an hour, and then the widow made her ease up.

  • The head is conical, and of a middling size, with respect to the bulk of the body.

  • Little did he think that that middling oat-bearing land was being minded and brooded upon.

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