Word of the Day

Middling


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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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