Difference between Mediocre and Middling

MEDIOCRE vs MIDDLING: NOUN

One of middling quality, talents, or merit.
A monk between twenty-four and forty years of age, who was excused from the office of the chantry and from reading the epistle and gospel, but performed his duty in choir, cloister, and refectory.
A mediocre person; a mediocrity.
A young monk who was excused from performing a portion of a monk's duties.

Plural The finest kind of wheat bran.
Plural In milling, the parts of a kernel of grain next the skin of the berry, largely composed of gluten and considered the most nutritious part.
That part of a hog which lies between the ham and the shoulder; a side of bacon.
Any commodity of intermediate quality or size (especially when coarse particles of ground wheat are mixed with bran)
The part of a gun-stock between the grasp and the tail-pipe or ramrod-thimble.
Pork or bacon cut from between the ham and shoulder of a pig.
Salt pork.
Any of various products, such as partially refined petroleum or ore, that are intermediate in quality, size, price, or grade.
Coarsely ground wheat mixed with bran.
Plural The coarser particles resulting from milling, intermingled with a certain quantity of bran and foreign matters,used as feed for farm stock; canaille.

Moderate to inferior in quality
Of no exceptional quality or ability
Of ordinary or undistinguished quality. : average.
Of a middle quality; of but a moderate or low degree of excellence; indifferent; ordinary.
Ordinary: not extraordinary; not special, exceptional, or great; of medium quality;
Lacking exceptional quality or ability
Poor to middling in quality

Of no exceptional quality or ability
Of medium size, position, or quality.
Mediocre. : average.
Lacking exceptional quality or ability
In fairly good health.
Of intermediate or average size, position, or quality; mediocre
Of middle rank, state, size, or quality; about equally distant from the extremes; medium; moderate; mediocre; ordinary.

To certain extent or degree
Of medium quality: a specific commercial grade of flour, pork, etc. See fair to middling, under fair.
Not in good health, yet not very ill; also, in Scotland, in fairly good health.
Medium in rank, condition, or degree; intermediate; hence, only medium; neither good nor bad; neither one thing nor the other: as, a fruit of middling quality.
Tolerably; moderately.

Shoddy, Indifferent, Pathetic, Pitiful, Dismal, Lackluster, Unimpressive, Second rate, Fair, Ordinary, Average, Bad, Poor, Inferior, Middling

Uninspiring, Decent, Subpar, Unimpressive, Soso, Within reason, Ordinary, Fair, Moderately, Reasonably, Fairly, Average, Somewhat, Passably, Mediocre

Shoddy, Indifferent, Pathetic, Pitiful, Dismal, Lackluster, Unimpressive, Second rate, Fair, Ordinary, Average, Bad, Poor, Inferior, Middling

Lackluster, Respectable, Uninspiring, Decent, Subpar, Unimpressive, Ordinary, Fair, Moderately, Reasonably, Fairly, Average, Somewhat, Passably, Mediocre

Pretty mediocre by any standards and trending worse.
If you are going to put in a mediocre effort, you are going to get a mediocre result.
An excellent writer can elevate a mediocre storyline, and a mediocre writer can drag down a powerful storyline.
Some games are mediocre with great dungeons whereas others are great with mediocre ones.
Customer feedback questions to include in a survey basics to include tested, but mediocre questions yield mediocre.
And functionality but mediocre questions yield mediocre answers you look up to in this business cupcake business ca be.
You get a mediocre TV and a mediocre DVD player.
They all also have quality issues as there just kinda mediocre made keyboards with mediocre internal components.
Among these mediocre minds and their mediocre truths, Nietzsthe broad fascination that characterized theory of natural selection.
"Mediocre coach for a mediocre team," wrote one blogger succinctly when the news broke.

Courage's Mild was pretty middling, finishing in eighth place.
Produces middling crops of potatoes and oats among the rocks.
Others have middling numbers of movies but high receipts.
The official quotations for middling upland cotton in Feb.
There is a middling selection of reading material.
This is a middling commentary track at best.
Inslee just said that your plan is middling.
The active noise cancellation was middling in effectiveness.
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