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mid

adj
/mɪd/

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.

  1. inherited from *médʰyos✻ — “between, in the middle, middle”
  2. inherited from *midjaz✻ — “mid, middle”
  3. inherited from *midi✻
  4. inherited from midd — “mid, middle, midway”
  5. inherited from mid

Definitions

  1. Occupying a middle position

    Occupying a middle position; middle.

    • Passing through the silent village, he heard the clock tell the mid hour of night.

  2. Made with a somewhat elevated position of some certain part of the tongue, in relation to…

    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

    Mediocre; of middling quality.

    • I’ve watched all of these shows. They’re not bad. They’re simply … mid. Which is what makes them, frustratingly, as emblematic of the current moment in TV as their stars’ previous shows were of the ambitions of the past.
    • In an era of AI slop and mid TV, is it time for cultural snobbery to make a comeback? [title]
  4. ›+ 9 more definitions

    1. Trashy

      Trashy; low-quality.

    2. The middle of the battlefield.

      • We need to retake mid.

    3. To or into the middle of the battlefield.

      • Everyone head mid.

    4. Amid.

      • mid the best
      • To shelter quivering natures, wrap them round / In downy softness, and impalace them / Mid fair magnificence, where all is found / Abundant as the longing heart can wish.

    5. Middle.

      • About the mid of night come to my tent.

    6. A mid-range.

    7. With.

      • For quotations using this term, see Citations:mid.

    8. Initialism of mobile information device.

    9. Initialism of militarized international (or interstate) dispute.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA