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in-between
[ in-bi-tween ]
noun
- a person or thing that is between two extremes, two contrasting conditions, etc.:
yeses, noes, and in-betweens; a tournament for professional, amateur, and in-between.
- a person who handles the intermediary steps, as in a manufacturing or sales process.
adjective
- being between one thing, condition, etc., and another:
a coat for in-between weather.
in-between
adjective
- intermediate
he's at the in-between stage, neither a child nor an adult
noun
- an intermediate person or thing
Other Word Forms
- -·ٷɱn noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of in-between1
Idioms and Phrases
In an intermediate situation, as in My roommates disagreed and I was caught in between . [Late 1500s]Example Sentences
Before then, in Rome these in-between days have taken on a flavour of their own.
I always come up with the first and the last scene in a movie but not what's in-between.
In the scene, Cooper — trapped in an in-between space known as the Black Lodge for 25 years — talks to a long dead Palmer, questioning if it's really her.
"Although I loved the matches, it was more about the moments in-between and the characters" she says.
It's true that his film work offers up both sides - the joy and the pain of life, the extremes of being human and everything in-between.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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