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English to English adjective
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Of middle rank, state, size, or quality; about equally distant from the extremes; medium; moderate; mediocre; ordinary. |  | source: webster1913 adjective satellite
| 2 |
lacking exceptional quality or ability | | Example: 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
source: wordnet30 adverb
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to a moderately sufficient extent or degree | | Example: pretty big
pretty bad
jolly decent of him
the shoes are priced reasonably
he is fairly clever with computers
source: wordnet30 noun
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any commodity of intermediate quality or size (especially when coarse particles of ground wheat are mixed with bran) | | source: wordnet30
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