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Mediate

Being between the two extremes; middle; interposed; intervening; intermediate.

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Similar meaning 6

Indirect 84% connected

Not direct; not straight or rectilinear; deviating from a direct line or course; circuitous; as, an indirect road.

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Indirect 84% connected

Not direct; not straight or rectilinear; deviating from a direct line or course; circuitous; as, an indirect road.

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Intermediate 84% connected

Lying or being in the middle place or degree, or between two extremes; coming or done between; intervening; interposed; interjacent; as, an intermedi…

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Intermediate 84% connected

Lying or being in the middle place or degree, or between two extremes; coming or done between; intervening; interposed; interjacent; as, an intermedi…

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Mediated 84% connected

of Mediate

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Mediated 84% connected

of Mediate

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Broader term 2

Lie 76% connected

See Lye.

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Negotiate 76% connected

To transact business; to carry on trade.

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Derivationally related 4

Intervention 74% connected

The act of intervening; interposition.

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Intervention 74% connected

The act of intervening; interposition.

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Mediateness 74% connected

The state of being mediate.

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Mediateness 74% connected

The state of being mediate.

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Attribute 4

Immediacy 66% connected

The relation of freedom from the interventionof a medium; immediateness.

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Immediacy 66% connected

The relation of freedom from the interventionof a medium; immediateness.

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Immediateness 66% connected

The quality or relations of being immediate in manner, place, or time; exemption from second or interventing causes.

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Immediateness 66% connected

The quality or relations of being immediate in manner, place, or time; exemption from second or interventing causes.

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Synonym 4

Arbitrate 92% connected

To hear and decide, as arbitrators; as, to choose to arbitrate a disputed case.

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Intercede 92% connected

To pass between; to intervene.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Intermediate 92% connected

Lying or being in the middle place or degree, or between two extremes; coming or done between; intervening; interposed; interjacent; as, an intermedi…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Middle 92% connected

Equally distant from the extreme either of a number of things or of one thing; mean; medial; as, the middle house in a row; a middle rank or station…

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Antonym 2

Immediate 94% connected

Not separated in respect to place by anything intervening; proximate; close; as, immediate contact.

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Immediate 94% connected

Not separated in respect to place by anything intervening; proximate; close; as, immediate contact.

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