Food Quality Terms

adjective moderately good, but not excellent

adverb to a moderate extent

• The company reported a middling performance in the last quarter.
• I would say the movie was just middling, nothing extraordinary.
• The party was pretty middling, nothing to write home about.
• His skills in basketball are middling at best, he needs to practice more.

adjective An adjective describes a noun or pronoun. In this case, 'overripe' describes a fruit that is too ripe or past its prime.

• The overripe fruit was no longer suitable for sale at the market.
• I accidentally left the bananas out too long and now they're overripe.
• Dude, these peaches are totally overripe, they're mushy as heck.
• The overripe relationship between the two countries was on the brink of collapse.