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Muddling vs Middling - What's the difference?

muddling | middling |

As a verb muddling

is present participle of lang=en.

As a noun muddling

is the act of one who muddles; confusion; disorderly progress.

As an adjective middling is

of intermediate or average size, position, or quality; mediocre.

muddling

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who muddles; confusion; disorderly progress.
  • * 2002 , Joe R. Jones, A Grammar of Christian Faith (page xiv)
    • Janzen's critiques of most of my present chapters, with his soaring imagination, unencumbered passion for theologizing, and relentless wrestling, often revealed and challenged my flat-footed muddlings

    middling

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • 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