# midmost

Pronunciation: say "MID-mohst" US /ˈmɪdmoʊst/, UK /ˈmɪdməʊst/

## Adjective

1. Superlative of mid: in the exact middle, or nearest to the exact middle. — superlative form of mid: most mid; in the exact middle, or nearest to the exact middle; middlemost.
   - Simple: Superlative of mid. Use it for the thing right in the middle, or closest to the 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._

## 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.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/midmost (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).