Definitions for middle-of-the-road

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middle-of-the-road mid·dle-of-the-road

Spelling: [mid-l-uh v-th uh-rohd<

IPA: /ˈmɪd l əv ðəˈroʊd/

Middle-Of-The-Road is a 18 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 1848 anagrams from letters in middle-of-the-road (---adddeefhilmoort).

Definitions for middle-of-the-road

noun

1. Also called easy listening. popular music having comparatively conventional, melodic qualities and hence having broad commercial appeal.

adjective

1. favoring, following, or characterized by an intermediate position between two extremes, especially in politics; moderate.
2. of, relating to, or describing a type of popular music that avoids extremes of style and is catchy and tuneful enough to have broad appeal.

Origin of middle-of-the-road

An Americanism dating back to 1890-95

Examples for middle-of-the-road

The idea of peace based on a two-state arrangement has become a boring, middle-of-the-road stance in Israel.

Present day chemists would acquiesce in this statement after reading Mitchill's "middle-of-the-road" arguments.

Fusion controlled the convention, voting down the "middle-of-the-road" group that adhered to independence.

middle-of-the-road voters just stopped buying right-wing fear-mongering.

For in 1912 Wilson had been in effect the middle-of-the-road candidate, the conservative liberal.

My two favorite tracks on the LP are the only two that successfully avoid this middle-of-the-road approach.

It was just something he felt he had to say to have credibility with middle-of-the-road voters.