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Adjective middling has 1 sense

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)

Adverbial middling has 1 sense

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"

Noun middling has 1 sense

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

Verb middle has 1 sense

middle - put in the middle
--₁ is one way to put, set, place, pose, position, lay

Derived forms: noun middle₂, noun middle₁
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something