Adjective
1. moderate to inferior in quality;
"they improved the quality from mediocre to above average""he would make a poor spy"2. of no exceptional quality or ability;
"a novel of average merit""only a fair performance of the sonata""in fair health""the caliber of the students has gone from mediocre to above average""the performance was middling at best"3. poor to middling in quality;
"there have been good and mediocre and bad artists"