MIDMOST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does midmost mean? 

• MIDMOST (adjective)
  The adjective MIDMOST has 1 sense:

1. being in the exact middle

  Familiarity information: MIDMOST used as an adjective is very rare.

• MIDMOST (adverb)
  The adverb MIDMOST has 1 sense:

1. the middle or central part or point

  Familiarity information: MIDMOST used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MIDMOST (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Being in the exact middle

Synonyms:

middlemost; midmost

Similar:

central (in or near a center or constituting a center; the inner area)

• MIDMOST (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The middle or central part or point

Synonyms:

in the midst; midmost

Context example:

could he walk out in the midst of his piece?

 Context examples 

The young leader snarled terribly, but his snarl broke midmost into a tickling cough.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

She recognized a flight that midmost broke.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

But for the stray brown on his muzzle and above his eyes, and for the splash of white hair that ran midmost down his chest, he might well have been mistaken for a gigantic wolf, larger than the largest of the breed.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Well, here he was, the great man on board, in the midmost centre of it, sitting at the captain's right hand, and yet vainly harking back to forecastle and stoke-hole in quest of the Paradise he had lost.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

But now he had seen that world, possible and real, with a flower of a woman called Ruth in the midmost centre of it; and thenceforth he must know bitter tastes, and longings sharp as pain, and hopelessness that tantalized because it fed on hope.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)