Middling - a podcast by Word of the Day

Middling is an adjective that means of medium or average quality or size.

Appropriately enough, our word of the day comes from Middle English. Its prefix M-I-D means ‘middle.’ A person of middling appearance would be an average looking person and so on.

I would describe our lemonade stand as a middling success. We didn’t come close to reaching fortune 500 status, but we did a lot better than those businesses that fold after weeks of opening.

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