middle

middle is a 6-letter English word with 13 senses as adjective, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Equally distant from the extreme either of a number of things or of one thing; mean; medial; as, the middle house in a row; a middle rank or station in life; flowers of middle summer; men of middle age. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 12 · 13 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Equally distant from the extreme either of a number of things or of one thing; mean; medial; as, the middle house in a row; a middle rank or station in life; flowers of middle summer; men of middle age.
2. adjective. Intermediate; intervening.
3. adjective. The point or part equally distant from the extremities or exterior limits, as of a line, a surface, or a solid; an intervening point or part in space, time, or order of series; the midst; central portion
4. adjective. the waist.
5. noun. the middle area of the human torso (usually in front)

   "young American women believe that a bare midriff is fashionable"

   Synonyms: midriff, midsection

6. noun. an intermediate part or section- Aristotle

   "A whole is that which has beginning, middle, and end"

7. noun. an area that is approximately central within some larger region

   "it is in the center of town"

   "they ran forward into the heart of the struggle"

   Synonyms: center, centre, eye, heart

8. noun. time between the beginning and the end of a temporal period

   "the middle of the war"

   "rain during the middle of April"

9. verb. put in the middle
10. adjective. equally distant from the extremes

    Synonyms: center, halfway, midway

11. adjective. between an earlier and a later period of time

    "in the middle years"

    "in his middle thirties"

12. adjective. of a stage in the development of a language or literature between earlier and later stages

    "Middle English is the English language from about 1100 to 1500"

    "Middle Gaelic"

13. 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: mediate

Synonyms

midriff, midsection, center, centre, eye, heart, halfway, midway, mediate

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in middle:

milded

Common word forms

middled, middler, middles, middling, middleness

Words from these letters

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