Of intermediate or average size, position, or quality; mediocreThe 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 DriftThe 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, D. H. Lawrence, ,"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.
