midmost
Syllables: mid·mostUK/ˈmɪdməʊst/US/ˈmɪdmoʊst/
midmost is the superlative form of mid.
Meaning of mid
Adjective
mid (no comparative, superlative midmost)
- 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
- 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].
- 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
- Synonyms:
- meh, pedestrian, unexceptional, average, comme ci comme ça, crappy, moderate, decent, indifferent, lackluster
- Trashy; low-quality.
- Synonyms:
- base, lousy, substandard, ass, bad, below par, bottom-shelf, BTEC, bum, cheap
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
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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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