🕰️ Middle part 😐 Average quality ⚽ A central player

mid

3 8.1

Average and not very impressive

adjective
/mɪd/

Slang

: regular

I was expecting something spectacular, but the performance was just mid.

Oh yeah one of those mid biddies bro gang.

Examples

Toby, would you like the good car, the mid car or the bad car?
So this time we only have low, mid and fancy.
This is a mid-life crisis.

Salmon Fishing in the Yemen (2012)
His leading lady is making a mid-career adjustment.

Mank (2020)
"I know one guy," I said, "a mid-level graphic artist at the Philadelphia office."

Fiction book (1995)
In her mid-twenties, she was the youngest engineer in the lab and the most outrageous.

Fiction book (2001)
Now calling herself Marina Luz, in her mid-20s she moved to Bradford, England.

Blog text (17)
Venture capital investing peaked in the mid-'80s after growing from a very low base in the 1970s.

Academic text (1995)
AT&T said its per-share earnings will grow at a mid-single-digit rate for the next three years.

Blog text (32)
In the mid-'70s, if you walked into a random white, liberal, middle-class household that had a turntable and a pile of pop records and if you flipped through the records you would always see Abbey Road by The Beatles.

Searching for Sugar Man (2012)

Synonyms

average

vsmid

∞ 1.0

Ordinary and not very good

is a slang word stressing mediocrity rather than neutral typicalness

mediocre

vsmid

94 4.8

Only average in quality and not very good

is the same idea but in slang casual speech

middling

vsmid

10 4.6

Having average quality, neither very good nor very bad

is the slang form emphasizing ordinary or unimpressive quality

meh

vsmid

Slang

5 8.8

Not very good and showing little interest

is a slang term used to say something is merely average

fair to middling

vsmid

Archaic

1 6.9

Medium quality, neither very good nor very bad

is a slang blunt way to call something average or mediocre

mah

vsmid

Informal

1 9.9

Not very good or interesting

is a slang label meaning average or not impressive

Antonyms

excellent

∞ 1.0

Very good and better than most similar things

outstanding

241 3.4

Much better than most others in skill or quality

superb

111 3.5

Of very high quality and extremely good

Compounds

mid-

58 3.7

Put before a noun to show the middle of a time or place

mid-Atlantic

17 3.8

A region on the east coast of the United States that includes states like New York and Virginia

Mid-Atlantic

15 3.2

A region in the eastern United States that includes states like New York and New Jersey

mid-October

11 1.0

The middle of October, about the 10th to the 20th

mid-July

11 1.0

The middle part of the month of July

mid-September

11 1.0

A time in the middle of September, around the 13th to 17th

mid-December

11 1.0

The time in December that is around the 13th to 19th

mid-November

9 1.0

The middle of November around the 13th to 17th

Mid-Atlantic states

9 3.4

A group of states in the eastern United States that includes New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Maryland

mid-August

9 1.0

The middle part of August

mid-June

8 1.0

A time around the middle of June

mid-March

8 1.0

The middle of March, usually around the 15th

mid-twenties

8 2.7

The years when a person is about 24 to 26 years old

mid-thirties

7 2.8

A time in life when someone is about 34 to 36 years old

mid-April

7 1.0

A time around the middle of April

mid-January

7 1.0

The time around the middle of January

mid-May

6 1.0

The middle of May

mid-flight

6 4.2

The period when a plane is in the air

mid-February

6 1.2

The middle of February, about the 14th to 16th

mid-sentence

5 5.1

Happening in the middle of a sentence while speaking or writing

mid-eighties

3 3.2

A time of life around eighty-five years old

mid-seventies

3 3.4

The time when a person is between about 70 and 80 years old

mid-fifties

2 3.0

An age between about 53 and 57 years

mid-forties

2 2.9

Time in life when someone is about 44 to 46 years old

mid-ocean

2 4.0

In the middle of an ocean far from land

mid-sixties

2 3.1

A time in life around sixty-five years old

mid-nineties

2 6.2

A person who is about 95 years old

Mid-Atlantic Ridge

2 7.1

A long underwater mountain range in the Atlantic Ocean from Iceland to near Bouvet Island

mid-flight

1 4.0

While a plane is in the air

mid-calf

1 4.5

The middle part of the lower leg between the knee and the ankle

mid-evening

1 2.8

The time around the middle of the evening

mid-ocean

1 4.4

The middle of an ocean far from any land

mid-evening

1 3.5

Happening in the middle of the evening

mid-water

Specialized

1 6.6

The middle part of water between the surface and the bottom where animals live

mid-level

1 3.9

A person who has a rank between junior and senior employees in a job

mid-on

Jargon

1 9.9

A fielding position near the bowler on the side the batsman hits toward

mid-channel

1 4.4

The middle part of a river away from the banks

mid-channel

1 6.8

Found in the central part of a broadcast or audio channel

mid vowel

Specialized

8.3

A sound in speech made with the tongue halfway between high and low in the mouth

mid-channel

Specialized

7.1

The central frequency in a radio or audio signal

mid-off

Jargon

9.9

A fielding position near the bowler on the off side to stop straight shots

How Good

excellent

∞ 1.0

good

∞ 1.0

mid

Slang

3 8.1

poor

555 1.0

terrible

∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

mid positive

Etymology

Mid: The slang mid comes from the word middle, which means 'in the center' or 'not at the top or bottom'. So calling something mid is a quick way to say it is average or not impressive.