Medium

//ˈmiː.di.əm//

Synonyms for "medium" (383 found)

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Closest matches (77)

Strong matches (115)

dimmer distemper distillate distillation distributor doer done doneness drawing paper drawing pencil drier dull dummy duodecimo dupe dye dyestuff easel ecoclimate ecodeme

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ecology ecosystem ecstatic eighteenmo element elixir environment equatorial equidistant essence everyday executant executor executrix expedient exterior paint fabric fabricator fair fair to middling fairish fence fixative flat coat flat wash floats flood floodlight floor enamel folio footlights foots forte front front man gelatin generality gist go between go-between golden mean ground half measures half-and-half measures halfway halfway measures handmaid handmaiden happy medium heart imperial implement indifferent insipid instrument instrumentality instrumentation interagent interceder intercessor intercurrent interior interior paint interjacent intermediary intermediate agent intermediation intermediator intermedium internuncio interpleader intervener intervenient intervening interventionist interventor jobber juste milieu juste-milieu kernel klieg light lackluster lay figure lever liaison light plot lights limelight link long suit machinery magician

Adjective(1 words)

half-done

Adjective(1 words)

intermediate

Noun(1 words)

Related words (191)

maker marquee marrow material matter maulstick mean means meat mechanism medial median mediary mediator mediocre mediocrity mediterranean medium-rare mediumly mesial

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mesne method mezzo mid middle middle course middle ground middle of the road middle point middle position middle state middle way middle-of-the-road middleman middlemost middling midland midmost midpoint midships midway midwife milieu minion ministry minor mise-en-scene mode moderate moderateness moderation modest mouthpiece mover namby pamby namby-pamby necromancer negotiant negotiator negotiatress negotiatrix neutral neutral ground norm normal nub nuclear octavo octodecimo of a kind of a sort of sorts ombudsman opaque color operant operative operator ordinary organ overcooked overdone oyster paint paintbrush palette palette knife par passable pastel pawn pencil performer perpetrator pigment pigments pith plaything popular practitioner prime coat prime mover primer priming producer psychic psychographist puppet quarto quintessence respectable road route routine royal rule run run-of-mine run-of-the-mill sap scratchboard servant sextodecimo siccative sixteenmo size sketchbook sketchpad slave so so so-so soul spatula spirit spirit rapper spiritist spiritualist spokesman spokeswoman spot spotlight spray gun stain standard stooge stuff stump subject substance sum and substance super surroundings synecology tangible technique tedious tempera thinner tie tinction tincture tolerable tool toy transparent color turpentine turps twelvemo undercoat undercoating usual vapid varnish vehicle via media voice vulgar wash wash coat way well done well-cooked well-done wholesaler wishy washy wishy-washy worker

Noun(4 words)

mass medium metier sensitive spiritualist

Adverb(1 words)

mediumly

Related word relations

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13 relation types

More general

21 entries

business communicating communication environment environs food instrumentality instrumentation job line line of work liquid means nutrient occupation psychic

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Synonyms

4 entries

culture medium intermediate mediumly metier

Related terms

7 entries

mean median mediate mediation mediator mediocre mediocrity

at location

1 entries

seance

capable of

2 entries

read tarot cards see beam of light

defined as

1 entries

binder for pigment in painting

derived

70 entries

Czapek medium Czapek-Dox medium English-medium LJ medium Löwenstein-Jensen medium basal medium biomedium circulating medium circumgalactic medium contrast medium cool medium cryomedium culture medium differential medium geomedium growth medium

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derived from

1 entries

etymologically related_to

1 entries

middle

has context

10 entries

biology engineering ireland logic microbiology painting plural media or mediums plural mediums plural mediums or media spiritualism

is a

9 entries

communication environment instrumentality liquid psychic state substance television season transmission

related to

44 entries

abrasive blasting achieve agency aim average base channel chemistry container convey environment extreme force garment gas in vitro

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similar

3 entries

cooked moderate

Translations

193 translations across 49 languages.

Ancient Greek

1 entries

μέτριος adj (of intermediate size)

Arabic

1 entries

مُتَوَسِّط adj (of intermediate size)

Belarusian

3 entries

сярэ́дні adj (of intermediate size)
асяро́ддзе noun (nature of the surrounding environment)
асяро́ддзе noun (material or empty space through which signals, waves or forces pass)

Bengali

1 entries

মারফত noun (nature of the surrounding environment)

Bulgarian

4 entries

сре́ден adj (of intermediate size)
ме́диум noun (someone who supposedly conveys information from the spirit world)
сре́дство noun (means, channel or agency by which an aim is achieved)
среда́ noun (nature of the surrounding environment)

Burmese

1 entries

လတ် adj (of intermediate size)

Catalan

4 entries

mitjà adj (of intermediate size)
medi noun (nature of the surrounding environment)
medi noun (material or empty space through which signals, waves or forces pass)
mitjà noun (format for communicating or presenting information)

Chinese Mandarin

4 entries

中型 adj (of intermediate size)
五分熟 adj (cooked lightly)
五成熟 adj (cooked lightly)
媒介 noun (painting: tool or materials used for painting or drawing)

Czech

3 entries

střední adj (of intermediate size)
médium noun (format for communicating or presenting information)
médium noun (someone who supposedly conveys information from the spirit world)

Danish

4 entries

medium noun (material or empty space through which signals, waves or forces pass)
medium noun (format for communicating or presenting information)
medium noun (someone who supposedly conveys information from the spirit world)
middel noun (means, channel or agency by which an aim is achieved)

Dutch

2 entries

medium noun (material or empty space through which signals, waves or forces pass)
medium noun (someone who supposedly conveys information from the spirit world)

Esperanto

2 entries

mezgranda adj (of intermediate size)
mediumo noun (someone who supposedly conveys information from the spirit world)

Estonian

1 entries

meedium noun (someone who supposedly conveys information from the spirit world)

Faroese

1 entries

miðil noun (format for communicating or presenting information)

Finnish

4 entries

keskikokoinen adj (of intermediate size)
keskikypsä adj (cooked lightly)
alipremissi noun (logic: middle term of a syllogism)
elatusaine noun (nutrient solution for the growth of cells in vitro)

French

4 entries

demi-anglais adj (cooked lightly)
moyen adj (of intermediate size)
milieu noun (nature of the surrounding environment)
milieu noun (nutrient solution for the growth of cells in vitro)

Friulian

1 entries

mezan adj (of intermediate size)

Galician

1 entries

médium noun (someone who supposedly conveys information from the spirit world)

Georgian

1 entries

საშუალება noun (format for communicating or presenting information)

German

4 entries

mittelgroß adj (of intermediate size)
Medium noun (nature of the surrounding environment)
Medium noun (material or empty space through which signals, waves or forces pass)
Medium noun (format for communicating or presenting information)

Greek

2 entries

μέσος adj (of intermediate size)
μέτριος adj (of intermediate size)

Hebrew

4 entries

בֵּינוֹנִי adj (of intermediate size)
אֶמְצָעִי noun (format for communicating or presenting information)
אֶמְצָעִי noun (means, channel or agency by which an aim is achieved)
מְתַוֵּךְ noun (means, channel or agency by which an aim is achieved)

Hindi

4 entries

माध्यम noun (nature of the surrounding environment)
माध्यम noun (material or empty space through which signals, waves or forces pass)
माध्यम noun (format for communicating or presenting information)
माध्यम noun (means, channel or agency by which an aim is achieved)

Hungarian

3 entries

közepes adj (of intermediate size)
közeg noun (nature of the surrounding environment)
médium noun (someone who supposedly conveys information from the spirit world)

Indonesian

4 entries

sedang adj (of intermediate size)
tanggung adj (of intermediate size)
cenayang noun (someone who supposedly conveys information from the spirit world)
perantara noun (someone who supposedly conveys information from the spirit world)

Irish

4 entries

idirmheán noun (format for communicating or presenting information)
meán noun (nature of the surrounding environment)
meán noun (material or empty space through which signals, waves or forces pass)
meán noun (format for communicating or presenting information)

Italian

4 entries

medio adj (of intermediate size)
medium noun (someone who supposedly conveys information from the spirit world)
mezzo noun (nature of the surrounding environment)
mezzo noun (material or empty space through which signals, waves or forces pass)

Japanese

1 entries

霊媒 noun (someone who supposedly conveys information from the spirit world)

Javanese

1 entries

tanggung adj (of intermediate size)

Lao

1 entries

ກາງ adj (of intermediate size)

Latin

1 entries

mediocris adj (of intermediate size)

Latvian

1 entries

līdzeklis noun (means, channel or agency by which an aim is achieved)

Macedonian

4 entries

сре́ден adj (of intermediate size)
ме́диум noun (someone who supposedly conveys information from the spirit world)
сре́дина noun (nature of the surrounding environment)
сре́дина noun (material or empty space through which signals, waves or forces pass)

Māori

4 entries

aho noun (someone who supposedly conveys information from the spirit world)
kauwaka noun (someone who supposedly conveys information from the spirit world)
matataketake noun (someone who supposedly conveys information from the spirit world)
rawatoi noun (painting: tool or materials used for painting or drawing)

Persian

1 entries

مدیوم adj (of intermediate size)

Polish

2 entries

średni adj (of intermediate size)
medium noun (someone who supposedly conveys information from the spirit world)

Portuguese

4 entries

ao ponto adj (cooked lightly)
médio adj (of intermediate size)
no ponto adj (cooked lightly)
mediador noun (means, channel or agency by which an aim is achieved)

Romanian

4 entries

mediu adj (of intermediate size)
mijlociu adj (of intermediate size)
medie noun (average; sometimes the mathematical mean)
mediu noun (nature of the surrounding environment)

Russian

4 entries

сре́дний adj (of intermediate size)
ме́диум noun (someone who supposedly conveys information from the spirit world)
носи́тель noun (means, channel or agency by which an aim is achieved)
сре́дство noun (means, channel or agency by which an aim is achieved)

Scottish Gaelic

1 entries

meadhan noun (means, channel or agency by which an aim is achieved)

Serbo-Croatian

4 entries

srȅdnjī adj (of intermediate size)
сре̏дњӣ adj (of intermediate size)
mȇdīj noun (someone who supposedly conveys information from the spirit world)
ме̑дӣј noun (someone who supposedly conveys information from the spirit world)

Slovak

1 entries

stredný adj (of intermediate size)

Slovene

1 entries

srednji adj (of intermediate size)

Spanish

4 entries

mediano adj (of intermediate size)
medio adj (of intermediate size)
medio noun (nature of the surrounding environment)
medio noun (format for communicating or presenting information)

Swedish

2 entries

mellan adj (of intermediate size)
mellanstor adj (of intermediate size)

Tagalog

2 entries

talaytayan noun (nature of the surrounding environment)
talaytayan noun (someone who supposedly conveys information from the spirit world)

Telugu

2 entries

మధ్యస్తం noun (format for communicating or presenting information)
మాధ్యమము noun (nature of the surrounding environment)

Ukrainian

4 entries

сере́дній adj (of intermediate size)
за́сіб noun (means, channel or agency by which an aim is achieved)
середо́вище noun (nature of the surrounding environment)
середо́вище noun (material or empty space through which signals, waves or forces pass)

Welsh

1 entries

cyfrwng noun (means, channel or agency by which an aim is achieved)

Sample sentences

30 total sentences available.

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The air is a medium for sound.

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And even outside these nations, English is perhaps more widely used as a medium of international communication than any other language.

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More and more people are rushing to make use of the interactive nature of the medium.

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One large fries and two medium cokes.

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