medium-sized

[ mee-dee-uhm-sahyzd ]

adjective

1. neither very large nor very small:

   a medium-sized house.

Word History and Origins

Origin of medium-sized¹

First recorded in 1880–85

Example Sentences

But the middle ground — medium-sized black holes — is a little trickier.

From The Daily Beast

Julio Cesar Rosas (a pseudonym) owns a medium-sized business in Los Cortijos, a district in east-central Caracas.

From The Daily Beast

These massive clusters hang harmoniously balanced within a medium sized gallery.

From The Daily Beast

Initiate a program to put light-rail mass-transit lines in all our large and medium-sized cities.

From The Daily Beast

And a rampant ache in my head, seconded by a medium-sized gash in the scalp, didn't make for an access of optimism at that moment.

From Project Gutenberg

Those medium-sized ones, made of wood and hooped like casks, cost from 80 pounds to 100 pounds apiece without appendages.

From Project Gutenberg

Of course the tonnage of the craft varies; the above measurements are those of a medium-sized one.

From Project Gutenberg

In his opinion this steamer was of about the same size as the Californian—a medium-sized steamer, "something like ourselves."

From Project Gutenberg

Two medium-sized buggy wheels were found in the back yard of a blacksmith shop, which were procured for a nominal price.

From Project Gutenberg