Vaihtoehtoiset kirjoitusmuodot
Ääntäminen
Southern England:
- RP:
- GA:
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Määritelmät
Adjektiivi
- Of intermediate or average size, position, or quality; mediocre.
- (colloquial, regional British) In fairly good health.
Adverbi
- (colloquial, regional British) Fairly, moderately, somewhat.
- (colloquial, regional British) Not too badly, with modest success.
Substantiivi
- Something of intermediate or average size, position, or quality.
- (in the plural) Preceded by the: people of moderate means; members of the middle class.
Esimerkit
- 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.
- "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.
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