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Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

good enough but not excellent
acceptableYour essay was acceptable, but I think you could have done better.
reasonableThey have a reasonable chance of winning.
adequateThe law provides adequate compensation for robbery victims.
passableI speak passable Spanish.
will doIt's not perfect, but it'll do.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Quite good, or not very good
acceptable
acceptably
adequacy
adequate
adequately
goodish
government
half decent
iffy
impure
passably
patchily
patchiness
patchy
presentably
scratch
spotty
the/your average bearidiom
up to scratchidiom
weedy

middling | American Dictionary

middling
adjective[ not gradable ]
us/ˈmɪd·lɪŋ/
medium or average; neither very good nor very bad:
a middling amount

Examples of middling

middling
The substantial and middling tenants at this time would have held on long leases, typically of 11 or 19 years.
His description of ' middling ' values is highly prescriptive, static, and defined against aspects of social mobility that he regards as inimical to these values.
The middling sorts were keen consumers of publicly performed music as well as avid makers of music in their homes.
In simple numbers they constituted the largest group within the middling sort, responsible for nearly half the inventories.
Their religion may also have made it possible for them (and the middling sort) to allow those below them a more active role.
The master-servant divide allegedly widened over the course of the eighteenth century, trickling down from the nobility to the middling sorts.
In response, they exaggerated and denounced the new styles visible among urban servants, apprentices and middling folk.
We speculate that it was this consumer-conscious middling sort which promoted urban change.
It also contrasts strongly with the life experiences of many ' middling ' autobiographers.
Even before they became middling in status there were signs of greater possibilities already manifest in these two individuals because of their social vigour.
Among the middling officers, the intensity of their large inner circles was clearly lower at a median of 2.9 interactions per network member.
It was the hard-working, entrepreneurial, charitable middling townsman, and his equally diligent wife; the characters who now, quite self-consciously, occupied this typical urban middling order.
Here blasphemy becomes the development and reformation of manners which occurs at the behest of secular authorities and processes of middling sort class formation.
Undoubtedly, as this notion of metropolitan gentility evolved so did other ' provincial ' notions of ' middling ' decency and respectability.
This garment illustrates items of popular fashion, as worn by middling and labouring women.
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