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. • Inside

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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. Holly Irwin:

   Greenstone Management Partners is going to make millions at the expense of what Greenstone Management Partners’s going to do to our communities in the future and the precedence it’s going to set, we are in the midst of an extreme drought, our communities need Colorado River water. At some point, the state has a responsibility to protect the people that are here and to protect Colorado River water and not cater to those that are buying property for the water rights to make millions off of Colorado River water to benefit metropolitan areas.

2. Chicago Teachers Union:

   What we have is a framework that all of our members must first review and assess, because it is our members who are being asked to return to school buildings in the midst of a global pandemic.

3. 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.

4. Timothy Affleck:

   It’s very difficult to balance family life in the midst of global stardom. It’s a hard, taxing life.

5. Jan Egeland:

   The notion that it is ebbing, this war, is completely wrong. This war is on and it's still in the midst of the civilian population.