moderate to inferior in quality; they improved the quality from mediocre to above average

[ Syn: second-rate ]

lacking 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

[ Syn: average , fair , middling ]

poor to middling in quality; there have been good and mediocre and bad artists'