graying, fortyish; balding, pot-bellied; dowdy, frumpy, stocky.
2. complacent, satisfied, settled, comfortable, content.
middle class, n. 1. bourgeoisie, bourgeoise, petite bourgeoisie; middle orders, shopkeepers, small tradesmen.
2. the common people, the masses, the hoi polloi, Jocular, the booboisie; Middle America, the silent majority, the grass roots; commonalty, the public, the general public, citizenry.
middle-class, adj. bourgeois, suburban, SI. plastic; conventional, middlebrow, middle-of-the-road, MOR; common, commonplace, ordinary, average, run-of-the-mill, Inf. garden-variety.
middleman, n. 1. broker, agent, interagent, medium, jobber, wholesaler, distributor, dealer.
2. intermediary, intermediator, mediator, intercessor, interceder, intervener, go-between; moderator, arbiter, arbitrator, negotiator, third or disinterested party, umpire, referee, interlocutor, peacemaker, makepeace.
3. connection, contact, Inf. front, Inf. front man, U.S. Politics, lobbyist; advocate, consumer advocate, SI. Nader-raider, champion, patron; spokesman, Inf. mouthpiece, solicitor, friend-at-court, ombudsman, ombudswoman.
4. diplomat, plenipotentiary, ambassador, envoy, emissary, minister, chargd d'affaires, legate, nuncio, internuncio.
middle of the road, n. center, middle ground, neutral position, moderate position, Inf. fence; mean, golden mean, Fr. juste-milieu, middle, median; medium, happy medium, compromise; middle course, middle way, Latin, via media.
middle-of-the-road, adj. 1. (all in reference to politics) moderate, centrist, Inf. on the fence, Inf. fence-sitting; noncommittal, mugwumpish, mugwumpian.
2. average, ordinary, common, commonplace, Inf. run-of-the-mill; conventional, conformist, middlebrow, commercial, MOR, Inf square, Inf. straight; middle-class, bourgeois, SI. plastic.
middling, adj. 1. average, moderate, medium, mean; ordinary, commonplace, everyday, run-of-the-mill; mediocre, indifferent, so-so, fair, fair to middling, betwixt and between, Inf. no great shakes, Inf. nothing to write home or brag about; undistinguished, unexceptional, unnotable, modest, of sorts, of a sort; adequate, passable, acceptable, tolerable; respectable, presentable, fairly good, Inf. not that good, not too bad. -adv. 2. moderately, fairly, slightly, rather, somewhat, Inf. pretty; sufficiently, adequately, satisfactorily, tolerably, passably,
midget, n. little man, manikin, dwarf, homunculus, chit, fingerling, dapperling, midge, cock-sparrow, hop-o'-my-thumb, Tom Thumb, Lilliputian, Chiefly Scot. wee fellow or laddie or one, Obs. pigwidgin, Archaic. dandiprat; shrimp, runt, pee-wee, squirt, pipsqueak, half-pint, small-fry, Inf shorty,
midmost, adj. 1. middlemost, centermost; central, centric, focal. -adv. 2.. in the midst of, in the thick of.
midnight, n. 1. dead of night, hush of night, witching hour, 12 at night.
-adj. 2. nocturnal, night, nighttime, nightly.
3. dark, black, pitch-black, pitch-dark, black or dark as pitch, black or dark as night.
4. burn the midnight oil lucubrate, Obs. elucubrate, study, Inf. cram, Inf grind, SI. bone, Brit. SI. swot; work overtime, work day and night, work late; stay
