mediate

  • (a) acting through or dependent on an intervening agency
    • the disease spread by mediate as well as direct contact
  • (s) being neither at the beginning nor at the end in a series
    • adolescence is an awkward in-between age
    • in a mediate position
    • the middle point on a line
    in-between, middle,

Verbs

  • (v) act between parties with a view to reconciling differences
    • He interceded in the family dispute
    • He mediated a settlement
    arbitrate, intercede, intermediate, liaise,
  • (v) occupy an intermediate or middle position or form a connecting link or stage between two others
    • mediate between the old and the new

Synonyms

arbitrate intercede intermediate liaise in-between middle

Antonyms

immediate

Words of close approximity

medial median
mediacy mediant
mediated mediateness