Middling vs Moderate - What's the difference?
middling | moderate | Related terms |
Of intermediate or average size, position, or quality; mediocre
* 12 July 2012 , Sam Adams, AV Club Ice Age: Continental Drift
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.
Not excessive; acting in moderation
* Jonathan Swift
Mediocre
Average priced; standard-deal
Not violent or rigorous; temperate; mild; gentle.
* Walter
(US, politics) Having an intermediate position between liberal and conservative.
One who holds an intermediate position between extremes, as in politics.
To reduce the excessiveness of (something)
* Arbuthnot
* Spenser
To become less excessive
To preside over (something) as a moderator
To act as a moderator; to assist in bringing to compromise
Middling is a related term of moderate.
As adjectives the difference between middling and moderate
is that middling is of intermediate or average size, position, or quality; mediocre while moderate is not excessive; acting in moderation.As a noun moderate is
one who holds an intermediate position between extremes, as in politics.As a verb moderate is
to reduce the excessiveness of (something).middling
English
Adjective
(-)- The football team is never the worst or best in its league; its position is always middling .
- 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.
Synonyms
* average, medium, unexceptionalDerived terms
* fair to middlingExternal links
*Origin of fair to middling
moderate
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- moderate language
- a moderate Calvinist
- travelling at a moderate speed
- A number of moderate members managed to obtain a majority in a thin house.
- a moderate winter
- moderate showers
Derived terms
* moderately * moderatenessSynonyms
* See also * See alsoNoun
(wikipedia moderate) (en noun)- ''While the moderates usually propose political compromise, it's often only achieved when the extremists allow them so
- The moderates are the natural advocates of ecumenism against the fanatics of their churches.
Verb
(moderat)- to moderate rage, action, desires, etc.
- By its astringent quality, it moderates the relaxing quality of warm water.
- To moderate stiff minds disposed to strive.
- to moderate a synod