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Middling vs Mediocer - What's the difference?

middling | mediocer |

As adjectives the difference between middling and mediocer

is that middling is of intermediate or average size, position, or quality; mediocre while mediocer is .

middling

English

Adjective

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  • Of intermediate or average size, position, or quality; mediocre
    • The football team is never the worst or best in its league; its position is always middling .
  • * 12 July 2012 , Sam Adams, AV Club Ice Age: Continental Drift
    • The matter of whether the world needs a fourth Ice Age movie pales beside the question of why there were three before it, but Continental Drift feels less like an extension of a theatrical franchise than an episode of a middling TV cartoon, lolling around on territory that’s already been settled.
  • In fairly good health.
  • *1913 ,
  • *:"And how's that chest of yours?" demanded Mrs. Morel.
  • *:He smiled again, with his blue eyes rather sunny.
  • *:"Oh, it's very middlin' ," he said.

    • Synonyms

    * average, medium, unexceptional

    Derived terms

    * fair to middling

    External links

    * Origin of fair to middling

    mediocer

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • * 1906 , C. Hanford Henderson in Educational Foundations , Volume XVIII, ?. 3, page #184:
    • A home atmosphere which is constantly critical may protect us from poor writing and other mediocer performance, but it also has the tendency to rob us of the chance of better things.

    Usage notes

    * It is difficult to determine if there was ever a time when this was an alternative spelling, rather than a misspelling.