<p><strong>Adjective</strong></p><ul><li>Medium, moderate, or average in size, quantity, or quality: The returns on such a large investment may be only middling.</li><li>Mediocre; ordinary; commonplace; pedestrian: The restaurant's entrées are no better than middling.</li><li>Older Use: In fairly good health.</li></ul><p><strong>Adverb</strong></p><ul><li>Moderately; fairly.</li></ul><p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>Middlings: Any of various products or commodities of intermediate quality, grade, size, etc., as the coarser particles of ground wheat mingled with bran.</li><li>Often middlings. Also called middling meat.</li><li>Chiefly Midland and Southern U.S.: Salt pork or smoked side meat.</li></ul>