midmost
- 1Superlative of mid: in the exact middle, or nearest to the exact middle.
The fountain stands at the midmost point of the square, equally far from each corner.
In the midmost hours of the night, the ward was quiet except for the hum of the monitors.
Note
The spelling suggests mid with -most attached, but the word descends from Old English medemest, the superlative of medeme, "middling", formed with the ordinary -est ending. Like mid, it can mark the middle of a space, a stretch of time or a series: Henry Boyd's 1802 translation of Dante's Divina Commedia has life laboring up "her midmost stage", the middle of its pilgrimage. Middlemost is its near twin.
midmost is a form of mid
mid, adjective: Occupying a position in the middle, whether of a space, a stretch of time, or a series. Full entry
- Forms
- midmidmost superlative
- Spelling
- mid → midmost: add -most
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Origin
From Old English medemest, the superlative of medeme ("middling"), which comes from Proto-Germanic *medumô. The word may also be analysed as mid + -most.