Synonyms for midst
mɪdstmidst

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1. midstpreposition

   Synonyms:
   amidst, amid

2. midstpreposition

   among, in the middle of

   Synonyms:
   amidst, amid

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1. midst

   We speak of the center of a circle, the middle of a room, the middle of the street, the midst of a forest. The center is equally distant from every point of the circumference of a circle, or from the opposite boundaries on each axis of a parallelogram, etc.; the middle is more general and less definite. The center is a point; the middle may be a line or a space. We say at the center; in the middle. Midst commonly implies a group or multitude of surrounding objects. Compare synonyms for AMID.

   Synonyms:
   center, middle

   Antonyms:
   bound, boundary, circumference, perimeter, rim

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1. midst

   Synonyms:
   middle, centre, thick, throng, heart

   Antonyms:
   outskirt, confine, edge, limit, extreme, purlieu, margin

Princeton's WordNetRate this synonym:2.3 / 3 votes

1. midst, thicknoun

   the location of something surrounded by other things

   "in the midst of the crowd"

   Synonyms:
   thick

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1. midstnoun

   Synonyms:
   middle, centre, central part

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1. List of paraphrases for "midst":

   middle, environment, heart, medium, full, means

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1. Bernard Nahlen:

   It would be a major failure on the part of everybody involved to have a lot of people die from malaria in the midst of the Ebola epidemic, i would be surprised if there were not an increase in unnecessary malaria deaths in the midst of all this, and a lot of those will be young children.

2. Anne Morrow Lindbergh:

   A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

3. Marcus Tullius Cicero:

   For if that last day does not occasion an entire extinction, but a change of abode only, what can be more desirable And if it, on the other hand, destroys and absolutely puts an end to us, what can be preferable to having a deep sleep fall on us in the midst of the fatigues of life and, being thus overtaken, to sleep to eternity

4. Confucius:

   With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bended arm for a pillow - I have still joy in the midst of these things. Riches and honors acquired by unrighteousness are to me as a floating cloud.

5. Eric Adams:

   Even in the midst of COVID, in the midst of everything that we’re going through, this is a country where hope and opportunities is always, ever present, it’s just great when New York shows the entire country of how we come back.