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Nearest vs Midmost - What's the difference?

nearest | midmost |

As adjectives the difference between nearest and midmost

is that nearest is closest to, superlative of near while midmost is in the exact middle, or nearest to the exact middle; middlemost.

As a preposition nearest

is closest to.

nearest

English

Adjective

(head)
  • Closest to, (near).
  • * 1843 , (Edgar Allan Poe), :
    • Fastening one end of this at that point of the trunk of the tree which was nearest the peg, he unrolled it till it reached the peg and thence further unrolled it, in the direction already established by the two points of the tree and the peg, for the distance of fifty feet

    Preposition

    (English prepositions)
  • closest to

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    midmost

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • In the exact middle, or nearest to the exact middle; middlemost
  • * 1908 ,
    • A wide half-circle of foam and glinting lights and shining shoulders of green water, the great weir closed the backwater from bank to bank, troubled all the quiet surface with twirling eddies and floating foam-streaks, and deadened all other sounds with its solemn and soothing rumble. In midmost of the stream, embraced in the weir's shimmering arm-spread, a small island lay anchored, fringed close with willow and silver birch and alder.