adequately vs middlingly

adequately

adv
  • Barely satisfactory or sufficient. 

  • Sufficient to satisfy a requirement or meet a need; sufficiently; satisfactorily. 

  • In an adequate manner. 

middlingly

adv
  • In a middling manner; averagely, moderately. 

How often have the words adequately and middlingly occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )