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medium-sized

medium-sized

31 2.4
Of a size between small and large
  • adjective
  • /ˈmiːdiəm saɪzd/
: mediano
  • The church's interior was one medium-sized room, filled with Navahos sitting in folding chairs.
  • medium-sized enterprises
  • medium-sized firm
  • medium-sized businesses

He has them transport them to the guy in the local hub, which is a medium sized metropolitan area.

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Examples

  • My father was an editor for the medium-sized university press in town.

    Fiction book (2000)

  • Inside was a brief letter attached by a paper clip to a medium-sized photograph.

    Fiction book (1993)

  • An app has been developed to help small and medium-sized businesses meet their health and safety requirements.

    Academic text (2015)

  • If you live in a medium-sized city, you see 800 ads...

    Syrup (2013)

  • Well, this is our medium-sized hangar.

    Ida Red (2021)

  • Small enterprises are those with fewer than 50 employees, while medium-sized enterprises have fewer than 250.

    Academic text (2011)

  • Research for this project was conducted in a tattoo shop in a medium-sized Midwestern city.

    Academic text (2012)

  • Our respondents are 458 undergraduate students from a medium-sized public university in the western United States.

    Academic text (2015)

  • Participants were 150 undergraduate students at a medium-sized university in Southwestern Ontario, Canada.

    Academic text (2015)

  • The family lives in a medium-sized house with three bedrooms and a small garden.

Synonyms

medium
vsmedium-sized
162 1.3

Of average size, not too big or too small

is limited to middle physical size rather than other measures like degree
midsize
vsmedium-sized
  • US
8 3.2

Medium in size between small and large

is the alternative adjective form expressing the same middle scale
medium-size
vsmedium-sized
3 2.3

Of a size between small and large

is the variant with a different hyphenation or adjectival ending for the same meaning
midsized
vsmedium-sized
  • US
3 3.4

Medium in size and not large or small

is the adjectival variant used to indicate that same middle dimension
moderate-size
vsmedium-sized
1 3.2

Larger than small but smaller than large

is the hyphenated adjective form used for that same intermediate sense
moderate-sized
vsmedium-sized
1 4.1

A person or thing that is between large and small in size

is more narrowly about intermediate physical size rather than general averageness
midscale
vsmedium-sized
4.2

Of medium price and quality between budget and luxury

is the general word for middle size without being tied to business use

Antonyms

large
∞ 1.0

Bigger than average in size, number, or amount

small
2 1.1

A clothing size for people who are not large

How Big

large
∞ 1.0
medium-sized
31 2.4
small
2 1.1

Surface Forms

medium-sized positive

Morphology

medium-sized = medium (transparent) = medium + sized

The adjective is formed by adding the productive suffix '-sized' to 'medium', so the meaning is directly predictable from the base.

Etymology

Medium-sized comes from medium, which means 'middle', and from size shown here as -sized, which means 'how big' something is. So medium-sized means 'in the middle' in size, not large or small.