Adjective

(en adjective)

That may be passed]] or [[traverse, traversed.

Tolerable; satisfactory; adequate.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)

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Able to "pass", or be accepted as a member of a race, sex or other group to which society would not otherwise regard one as belonging.

* 2014 , Paul Stryker, Confessions of a Sex Offender (page 33)

The idea of something, or someone, being unusual and sexual is intoxicating. I concluded that if I ever met a very passable transsexual and we were attracted to one another, I'd go bisexual and pursue the relationship.

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.