English Explanatory Dictionary

mid

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Occupying a middle position; middle.
  2. Made with a somewhat elevated position of some certain part of the tongue, in relation to the palate; midway between the high and the low; said of certain vowel sounds, such as, [e o ɛ ɔ].
  3. Mediocre; of middling quality.
  4. Trashy; low-quality.
noun
  1. The middle of the battlefield.
adv
  1. To or into the middle of the battlefield.
prep
  1. Amid.
noun
  1. Middle.
noun
  1. A mid-range.
prep
  1. With.
noun
  1. Initialism of mobile information device.
  2. Initialism of militarized international (or interstate) dispute.

Pronunciation

/mɪd/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-mid.wav

Word forms

mid midmost mids myd

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *me Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-? Proto-Indo-European *-dʰe Proto-Indo-European *médʰi Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos Proto-Germanic *midjaz Proto-West Germanic *midi Old English midd Middle English mid English mid Inherited from Middle English mid, midde, from Old English midd (“mid, middle, midway”), from Proto-West Germanic *midi, from Proto-Germanic *midjaz (“mid, middle”, adjective), from Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos (“between, in the middle, middle”). Cognate with Dutch midden (“in the middle”), German Mitte (“center, middle, mean”), Icelandic miður (“middle”, adjective), Latin medius (“middle”, noun and adjective). See also middle. The slang sense may be influenced by terms such as middling and midwit.

Synonyms

meh pedestrian unexceptional average comme ci comme ça crappy decent indifferent lackluster mediocre mid middling no great shakes nothing to write home about not worth writing home about okayish ordinary uninspiring shitty so-so tolerable whatever base lousy substandard ass bad below par bottom-shelf BTEC bum cheap cheap and nasty cheapshit cheesy chintzy coffee-and crap crappo craptastic crapperific craptabulous craptacular cruddy crummy dogwater drecky flimsy fourth-rate gash garbage god-awful inferior low low-grade low-quality low-rent made in China naughty one-star

Related words

midness midday midnight

Derived words

close-mid early-to-mid inmid mid-autumn midbie Mid Calder mid cell mid-central Mid Clyth Mid Devon middish midfall Mid Glamorgan mid hundreds midleg midlight midmost Mid Murray Mid North Mid North Coast mid off mid on midpoint midquel midseason midshipman Mid Suffolk midsummer Mid Sussex midterm midterm break midterm election midward Mid West Mid-Western mid-winter mid youth open-mid
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