halfway

1. 1.

   at half the distance; at the middle

   “he was halfway down the ladder when he fell”

   Synonymsmidway

Other forms of halfway

comparative or superlative

halfways

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about halfway

What does halfway mean?

halfway means "equally distant from the extremes". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in halfway?

halfway has 2 syllables: half-way. The stress falls on "half". In IPA it is /ˈhæfˈweɪ/.

What is another word for halfway?

Close synonyms include center, middle, midway, midway. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is halfway a common word?

halfway is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with halfway?

55 words rhyme with halfway. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.