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Synonyms for medium
| Grammar : Adj, noun |
| Spell : mee-dee-uhm |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈmi di əm |
Top 10 synonyms for medium Other synonyms for the word medium
- agency
- agent
- ambience
- ambient
- avenue
- clairvoyant
- common
- commonplace
- conditions
- drama
- factor
- fair
- fairish
- habitat
- influences
- instrumentality
- interpretation
- manifestation
- mark
- mean
- measure
- medial
- median
- mediocre
- middle
- middling
- milieu
- ministry
- moderate
- neutral
- normal
- ordinary
- organ
- painting
- par
- passable
- popular
- psychic
- revelation
- run-of-the-mill
- sculpture
- seer
- so-so
- speech
- standard
- surroundings
- tolerable
- vehicle
- way
- writing
Définition of medium
Origin :- 1580s, "a middle ground, quality, or degree," from Latin medium "the middle, midst, center; interval," noun use of neuter of adjective medius (see medial (adj.)). Meaning "intermediate agency, channel of communication" is from c.1600. That of "person who conveys spiritual messages" first recorded 1853, from notion of "substance through which something is conveyed." Artistic sense (oil, watercolors, etc.) is from 1854. Happy medium is the "golden mean," Horace's aurea mediocritas.
- adj midway, average
- noun means, mode
- noun atmosphere, setting
- noun area of artistic expression
- Yet they not only use this medium, but mistake it for the whitest sunshine.
- Extract from : « The Hall of Fantasy (From "Mosses From An Old Manse") » by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Through what medium can the idea of servitude enter their minds?
- Extract from : « The New Adam and Eve (From "Mosses From An Old Manse") » by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- The new—or what seems new to me—is apparently the medium in which it is most at home.
- Extract from : « The Conquest of Fear » by Basil King
- Yet how imperfect a glimpse do we obtain of him, through the medium of this, or any of his letters!
- Extract from : « A Book of Autographs » by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- It was, indeed, necessary for me to converse by the medium of an interpreter.
- Extract from : « In the Heart of Vosges » by Matilda Betham-Edwards
- Wealth, or its symbol, is a medium of translating the one into the other.
- Extract from : « City of Endless Night » by Milo Hastings
- You will want a hat, a good hat to turn rain, with a medium brim.
- Extract from : « The Forest » by Stewart Edward White
- Fruit first, Joy next; the one the cause or medium of the other.
- Extract from : « Pax Vobiscum » by Henry Drummond
- The medium had exerted every spiritual faculty to receive the truth.
- Extract from : « Mountain Meditations » by L. Lind-af-Hageby
- The visitor is necessarily hampered by the necessity for a medium.
- Extract from : « Mountain Meditations » by L. Lind-af-Hageby
Antonyms for medium
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