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mid¹
- /mɪd/
Rhymes with -ɪd
Where it comes from
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.
adjective midmost
- Occupying a middle position; middle. Passing through the silent village, he heard the clock tell the mid hour of night.
- 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].
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Mediocre; of middling quality.
The song is one of his best, but its real power comes from the accompanying, highly-stylized video wherein Lil Nas X breaks out of a prison populated with Black gay men (and, for an unspecified reason, Jack Harlow in an unseemly role as the Straight White Savior who delivers a verse that is mid at b
Similar: meh, pedestrian, unexceptional, average, comme ci comme ça, crappy, moderate, decent, indifferent, lackluster, mediocre, mid
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Trashy; low-quality.
Similar: base, lousy, substandard, ass, bad, below par, bottom-shelf, BTEC, bum, cheap, cheap and nasty, cheapshit
noun
- The middle of the battlefield. We need to retake mid.
adverb
- To or into the middle of the battlefield. Everyone head mid.
preposition
- Amid. mid the best
mid²
- /mɪd/
Rhymes with -ɪd
Where it comes from
From Middle English mid, midde, from Old English midd (“midst, middle”, noun), from Proto-Germanic *midją, *midjǭ, *midjô (“middle, center”) < *midjaz, from Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos (“between, in the middle, middle”). Cognate with German Mitte (“center, middle, midst”), Danish midje (“middle”), Icelandic midja (“middle”). See also median, Latin mediānus.
noun mids
- Middle. About the mid of night come to my tent.
mid³
- /mɪd/
Rhymes with -ɪd
Where it comes from
Clipping of mid-range.
noun mids
- A mid-range.
mid⁴
- /mɪd/
Rhymes with -ɪd
Where it comes from
From or representing German mit, and/or perhaps German Low German mid. Although Middle English had a native preposition mid with this same meaning ("with"), it had fallen out of general use by the mid 1400s and survived into the modern English period only in sporadic use and the compounds midwife and theremid.
preposition myd
- With. For quotations using this term, see Citations:mid.
MID⁵
noun MIDs
- Initialism of mobile information device
- Initialism of militarized international (or interstate) dispute.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: middle, midway, midst, midpoint, halfway, medium-sized, intermediate, medium-term, half, central, midyear, environmental, milieu, mid-november, mid-april, mid-march
Translations
Talk about this word "mid." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/mid. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. mid. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/mid "mid." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/mid.Cite this
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title = {mid},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
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urldate = {2026-11-06}
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