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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
(adv) moderately, passably, somewhat, jolly, reasonably, pretty, fairly
to a moderately sufficient extent or degree
pretty big; pretty bad; jolly decent of him; the shoes are priced reasonably; he is fairly clever with computers