Exceptional and Middling

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Exceptional adjective - Being out of the ordinary.

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Middling is an antonym for exceptional.

Middling adjective - Being about midway between extremes of amount or size.

Usage example: tired of the city but not particularly interested in small-town life, he moved to a suburb of middling size

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Exceptional is an antonym for middling in adequate topic.

Nearby Words: middle, middled

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Middling and Exceptional. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 22, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/exceptional/middling

Exceptional & Middling. N.p., 2016. Web. 22 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/exceptional/middling>.

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