mediate
mediate is a 7-letter English word with 11 senses as adjective, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Being between the two extremes; middle; interposed; intervening; intermediate. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- adjective. Being between the two extremes; middle; interposed; intervening; intermediate.
- adjective. Acting by means, or by an intervening cause or instrument; not direct or immediate; acting or suffering through an intervening agent or condition.
- adjective. Gained or effected by a medium or condition.
- adjective. To be in the middle, or between two; to intervene.
- adjective. To interpose between parties, as the equal friend of each, esp. for the purpose of effecting a reconciliation or agreement; as, to mediate between nations.
- transitive verb. To effect by mediation or interposition; to bring about as a mediator, instrument, or means; as, to mediate a peace.
- transitive verb. To divide into two equal parts.
- verb. act between parties with a view to reconciling differences
"He interceded in the family dispute"
"He mediated a settlement"
- verb. occupy an intermediate or middle position or form a connecting link or stage between two others
"mediate between the old and the new"
- adjective. acting through or dependent on an intervening agency
"the disease spread by mediate as well as direct contact"
- adjective. being neither at the beginning nor at the end in a series
"adolescence is an awkward in-between age"
"in a mediate position"
Synonyms
arbitrate, intercede, intermediate, liaise, middle
Common word forms
mediated, mediates, mediately, mediating, mediateness
Words from these letters
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