Usually means: Moderate, avoiding extremes in opinion.
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We found 25 dictionaries that define the word middle of the road:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. middle of the road: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. middle-of-the-road, middle of the road: Merriam-Webster
  3. middle-of-the-road: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. middle-of-the-road: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. middle-of-the-road, middle-of-the-road: Collins English Dictionary
  6. middle-of-the-road: Vocabulary.com
  7. middle-of-the-road: Wordnik
  8. middle-of-the-road: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. middle of the road: Wiktionary
  10. middle-of-the-road: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. middle-of-the-road: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. middle-of-the-road, middle of the road: Dictionary.com
  13. middle-of-the-road: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Middle Of The Road, Middle of the Road (band), Middle of the Road (song), Middle-of-the-road, Middle of the road (music), Middle of the road: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. middle-of-the-road: Rhymezone
  16. middle-of-the-road: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. middle-of-the-road: FreeDictionary.org
  18. middle-of-the-road: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. middle-of-the-road: TheFreeDictionary.com
  20. Middle of the road: Phrase Finder
  21. middle-of-the-road: Wiktionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. middle-of-the-road: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. middle-of-the-road: Idioms

Definitions from Wiktionary (middle of the road)

adjective:  (idiomatic) Having a centrist attitude or philosophy; not extreme, especially politically.
adjective:  (music, sometimes derogatory) Of a type of melodic popular music that has wide appeal.
noun:  (idiomatic) The middle; the average.

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