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midmost

Syllables: mid·mostUK/ˈmɪdməʊst/US/ˈmɪdmoʊst/

midmost is the superlative form of mid.

Meaning of mid

Adjective

mid (no comparative, superlative midmost)

  1. (no-comparative) Occupying a middle position; middle.
    • Passing through the silent village, he heard the clock tell the mid hour of night.1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or The Ambiguities
  2. (no-comparative) 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. (no-comparative) 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...2021 July 26, Reanna Cruz, “Lil Nas X, 'INDUSTRY BABY'”, in NPR, archived from the original on 27 May 2022
  4. (Internet, broadly, no-comparative) Trashy; low-quality.

See all 10 meanings of mid

Origin of midmost

From Old English medemest, superlative of medeme (“middling”), from Proto-Germanic *medumô; the word may be analysed as mid + -most.

Questions about midmost

What is midmost the superlative form of?
Midmost is the superlative form of mid.
How do you pronounce midmost?
Midmost is pronounced /ˈmɪdməʊst/ (UK).

Words near midmost in the dictionary

  1. midmonthly
  2. midmonths
  3. midmorn
  4. midmorning
  5. midmornings
  6. midmost
  7. midmotion
  8. midmountain
  9. midmovement
  10. midmovie
  11. midmyocardia

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Adapted from Wiktionary: midmost (page history and authors); mid (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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