mid
A mid-range.
Adjective
- 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:
- Though teams from China have hoisted the Summoner’s Cup, which goes to the Worlds champion, it’s always been South Korean mid laners who have starred on those teams. Erzberger said Knight wants to be the first Chinese...
- 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...
- 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...
- In an era of AI slop and mid TV, is it time for cultural snobbery to make a comeback? [title] - 2025 September 28, Rachel Aroesti, “In an era of AI slop and mid TV, is it time for cultural snobbery to make a comeback?”,...
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
- Trashy; low-quality.
Synonyms: base lousy substandard ass bad below par bottom-shelf BTEC bum cheap cheap and nasty cheapshit cheesy chintzy coffee-and crap crappo crappy craptastic crapperific craptabulous craptacular cruddy crummy
Origin
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.
Forms
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Adverb
- To or into the middle of the battlefield.
- Everyone head mid.
Noun games, gaming
- The middle of the battlefield.
- We need to retake mid.
Noun archaic
- Middle.
- About the mid of night come to my tent. - c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […]...
Origin
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.
Forms
Noun Entry 5
- A mid-range.
Origin
Clipping of mid-range.
Forms
Preposition archaic
- 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. - 1855, Alexander Carlile, Poems, page 70:
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Derived
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
Preposition Entry 7
- With.
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:mid.
Origin
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.