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Adjective

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The word "medium" can be used as noun, adjective, adjective and adverb.

Word Relationships

Typical Location

seance

Capable Of

read tarot cards see beam of light

Defined As

binder for pigment in painting

Derived Terms

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 happy medium hot medium hypermedium intergalactic medium intermedium interplanetary medium interstellar medium lower-medium mass medium medium Earth orbit medium dead medium drink medium dry medium format medium icebreaker medium long shot medium machine gun medium of exchange medium of instruction medium pace medium pacer medium scale integration medium shot medium spiny neuron medium wave medium well medium-brow medium-chain medium-quality mediumic mediumism mediumist mediumistic mediumize mediumship mediumwave mediumweight military medium minimal medium multimedial multimedium over medium plurimedial polymedial postmedium small and medium-sized enterprise social medium storage medium strike a medium transmedium transmission medium upper-medium warm ionized medium warm-hot intergalactic medium

Derived From

um

Etymologically Related To

middle

Context

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

Broader Terms (Hypernyms)

business communicating communication environment environs food instrumentality instrumentation job line line of work liquid means nutrient occupation psychic state substance surround surroundings transmission

Type Of (IsA)

communication environment instrumentality liquid psychic state substance television season transmission

Related Terms

mean median mediate mediation mediator mediocre mediocrity

Related Terms

abrasive blasting achieve agency aim average base channel chemistry container convey environment extreme force garment gas in vitro intermediate liquid mass finishing material mean means measurement median mediate mediation mediator mediocre mediocrity paint pigment rare signal solid solvent space spirit stout substance syllogism term vacuum wave well done

Similar Terms

cooked cooked moderate

Synonym Network

culture medium intermediate mediumly metier

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.