Synonyms for middle

Synonyms for (noun) middle

Synonyms: middle, midriff, midsection

Definition: the middle area of the human torso (usually in front)

Usage: young American women believe that a bare midriff is fashionable

Similar words: area, region

Definition: a part of an animal that has a special function or is supplied by a given artery or nerve

Usage: in the abdominal region


Synonyms: middle

Definition: an intermediate part or section

Usage: A whole is that which has beginning, middle, and end- Aristotle

Similar words: part, section, division

Definition: one of the portions into which something is regarded as divided and which together constitute a whole

Usage: the written part of the exam; the finance section of the company; the BBC's engineering division


Synonyms: eye, heart, centre, center, middle

Definition: an area that is approximately central within some larger region

Usage: it is in the center of town; they ran forward into the heart of the struggle; they were in the eye of the storm

Similar words: area, country

Definition: a particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography)

Usage: it was a mountainous area; Bible country


Synonyms: middle

Definition: time between the beginning and the end of a temporal period

Usage: the middle of the war; rain during the middle of April

Similar words: point, point in time

Definition: an instant of time

Usage: at that point I had to leave


Synonyms for (verb) middle

Synonyms: middle

Definition: put in the middle

Similar words: put, place, pose, position, set, lay

Definition: put into a certain place or abstract location

Usage: Put your things here; Set the tray down; Set the dogs on the scent of the missing children; Place emphasis on a certain point


Synonyms for (adj) middle

Synonyms: center, middle, midway, halfway

Definition: equally distant from the extremes

Similar words: central

Definition: in or near a center or constituting a center; the inner area

Usage: a central position


Synonyms: middle

Definition: between an earlier and a later period of time

Usage: in the middle years; in his middle thirties

Similar words: intervening

Definition: occurring or falling between events or points in time

Usage: so much had happened during the intervening years


Similar words: mid

Definition: used in combination to denote the middle

Usage: midmorning; midsummer; in mid-1958; a mid-June wedding


Synonyms: in-between, mediate, middle

Definition: being neither at the beginning nor at the end in a series

Usage: adolescence is an awkward in-between age; in a mediate position; the middle point on a line

Similar words: intermediate

Definition: lying between two extremes in time or space or state

Usage: going from sitting to standing without intermediate pushes with the hands; intermediate stages in a process; intermediate stops on the route; an intermediate range plane


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