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Middling

Of middle rank, state, size, or quality; about equally distant from the extremes; medium; moderate; mediocre; ordinary.

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Ordinary 84% connected

According to established order; methodical; settled; regular.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Ordinary 84% connected

According to established order; methodical; settled; regular.

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Open English WordNet links these adjective senses as similar in meaning; they are not necessarily interchangeable.

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Commodity 76% connected

Convenience; accommodation; profit; benefit; advantage; interest; commodiousness.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a broader lexical category for at least one sense.

Good 76% connected

Possessing desirable qualities; adapted to answer the end designed; promoting success, welfare, or happiness; serviceable; useful; fit; excellent; ad…

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Reasonable 66% connected

Having the faculty of reason; endued with reason; rational; as, a reasonable being.

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Average 92% connected

That service which a tenant owed his lord, to be done by the work beasts of the tenant, as the carriage of wheat, turf, etc.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Fair 92% connected

Free from spots, specks, dirt, or imperfection; unblemished; clean; pure.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Fairly 92% connected

In a fair manner; clearly; openly; plainly; fully; distinctly; frankly.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Jolly 92% connected

Full of life and mirth; jovial; joyous; merry; mirthful.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Mediocre 92% connected

Of a middle quality; of but a moderate or low degree of excellence; indifferent; ordinary.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Moderately 92% connected

In a moderate manner or degree; to a moderate extent.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Passably 92% connected

Tolerably; moderately.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Pretty 92% connected

Pleasing by delicacy or grace; attracting, but not striking or impressing; of a pleasing and attractive form a color; having slight or diminutive bea…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Reasonably 92% connected

In a reasonable manner.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Somewhat 92% connected

More or less; a certain quantity or degree; a part, more or less; something.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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