🇨🇳Chinese Source WordCode: ZH

中等的

Pronunciation / Transliteration: zhōngděng de

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Middling/ˈmɪd.lɪŋ/
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🇨🇳 Example Sentence in Chinese:

"这家餐厅的菜品质量只能算中等的。"

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2 senses
As adjective
  1. 1

    Moderate or average in size, amount, or quality.

    "The restaurant offered middling food at rather high prices."
As adverb
  1. 1

    Moderately; fairly or reasonably.

    "He has been doing middling well in his new job."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from Middle English, combining 'middle' (from Old English 'middel') with the suffix '-ing'. Historically developed in the late Middle Ages to denote a position, quality, or condition intermediate between extremes of size, quality, or degree.

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