- 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.
- in fairly good health.
- moderately; fairly.
- any of various products or commodities of intermediate quality, grade, size, etc., as the coarser particles of ground wheat mingled with bran.
- salt pork or smoked side meat.
- mediocre in quality, size, etc; neither good nor bad, esp in health (often in the phrase fair to middling)
- moderately
