Middling

Middling is an adjective that means of medium or average quality or size. Appropriately enough, our word of the day comes from Middle English. Its prefix M-I-D means ‘middle.’ A person of middling appearance would be an average looking person and so on. I would describe our lemonade stand as a middling success. We didn’t come close to reaching fortune 500 status, but we did a lot better than those businesses that fold after weeks of opening.