Definition of Midlist

1. Adjective. (publishing of a book or author) Unlikely to be more than modestly successful ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Midlist

1. a section of a publisher's list of current titles [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Midlist

midleg
midlegs
midlevel
midlick
midlife
midlifer
midlifers
midline
midline closure defects
midline granulomatosis
midline incision
midline malignant reticulosis granuloma
midline myelotomy
midlines
midlist (current term)
midlists
midlives
midlung
midlungs
midmain
midmajor
midmajors
midmarket
midmarriage
midmatch
midmeal
midmeeting
midmonth

Literary usage of Midlist

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Looking Backward, 2000-1887 by Edward Bellamy (1888)
"midlist rial serv'ce required of all men?" I answered. " The religious practices of the people have naturally changed considerably in a century," replied ..."

2. The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal (1843)
"... from whom his usually tender heart stood back, laughed, danced, and conversed, and fascinated every hearer but her husband, in whose ears the midlist ..."

3. Global Infatuation: Explorations in Transnational Publishing and Texts : the by Eva Hemmungs Wirtén (1998)
"And the first four books I wrote will never be published anyway, they weren't anything, they weren't midlist, they weren't anything, they were just a ..."

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