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means, meanness, meaning, meanly, meant

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have in mind; intend
signify, convey
average
attentive
obliging
agreeable
good
loving
respectful
friendly
courteous
pleasing
benevolent
generous
sweet
grateful
noble
hopeful
free
high
pleasant
peaceful
regretful
amiable
charming
compassionate
contrite
engaging
good-humored
good-natured
gracious
happy
humane
indulgent
jovial
kind
likable
lovable
luscious
nonviolent
personable
selfless
sumptuous
sympathetic
tender
thoughtful
unselfish
abundant
accommodating
appreciative
captivating
charitable
clement
congenial
convenient
genial
gentle
lavish
lenient
liberal
magnanimous
merciful
munificent
nice
peaceable
permissive
stately
sugary
tolerant
understanding
ungenerous
well-mannered
friendly, agreeable
understanding, recognizing worth
considerate
charitable, kind
giving, generous
calm, mild (weather)
affable
having tender feelings
friendly, compatible
respectful of others
appropriate, useful
friendly, sociable
gentle, mannerly
impartial, unprejudiced
without charge
intimate, companionable
giving, big-hearted
extremely nice and happy
having a mild or kind nature
pleasant, fine
funny, happy
easygoing, easily pleased
kind, giving
tall; at a great distance aloft
promising, auspicious
kind, compassionate
lenient, giving
generous, good
profuse; splendid
nice, pleasant
very likable; endearing
expressing adoration
delicious, delectable
giving and kind
poor; of or in inferior circumstances
hostile, rude
kind, sparing
likable, agreeable
dignified, excellent
friendly, helpful
acceptable; friendly
mannerly, civilized
courteous, mannerly
dignified, impressive
luxurious, splendid
friendly, kind
affectionate, loving
caring, mindful
open-minded, easygoing
accepting, tolerant
polite and courteous
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English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:2.0 / 1 vote

mean

Antonyms:
alarming, appalling, august, awful, dire, direful, dread, dreadful, fearful, frightful, grand, horrible, imposing, majestic, noble, portentous, shocking, solemn, stately, terrible, terrific

Synonyms:
base, beggarly, commonplace, contemptible, despicable, humble, inferior, lowly, paltry, undignified, vulgar

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meanadjective

Antonyms:
high, exalted, eminent, spirited, honorable, lordly, princely, munificent, liberal, generous

Synonyms:
common, low, base, spiritless, dishonorable, contemptible, despicable, beggarly, sordid, vulgar, niggardly, vile
meanadjective

Antonyms:
extreme, excessive, exorbitant

Synonyms:
middle, intermediate, average
meannoun

Antonyms:
extreme, excess, preponderance, disproportion, deficiency, shortcoming, inadequacy

Synonyms:
medium, moderation, balance, average
meanverb

Antonyms:
say, state, enunciate, execute, perform

Synonyms:
intend, purpose, design, signify, denote, indicate, hint, suggest

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- Associate
- Convey
- Intend
- Necessitate
- Statistics

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mean, mean valueadjective

an average of n numbers computed by adding some function of the numbers and dividing by some function of n

Antonyms:
generous, unnatural, estimable, rich, nice, abnormal, noble, unskilled

Synonyms:
mean value
average, mean(a)adjective

approximating the statistical norm or average or expected value

«the average income in New England is below that of the nation»; «of average height for his age»; «the mean annual rainfall»

Antonyms:
unnatural, unskilled, rich, generous, abnormal, nice, noble, estimable
hateful, meanadjective

characterized by malice

«a hateful thing to do»; «in a mean mood»

Antonyms:
unnatural, nice, abnormal, rich, noble, generous, estimable, unskilled

Synonyms:
bastardly, miserly, mean(a), base, beggarly, mingy, meanspirited, tight, hateful, average
base, mean, meanspiritedadjective

having or showing an ignoble lack of honor or morality

«that liberal obedience without which your army would be a base rabble»- Edmund Burke; «taking a mean advantage»; «chok’d with ambition of the meaner sort»- Shakespeare; «something essentially vulgar and meanspirited in politics»

Antonyms:
unskilled, generous, rich, estimable, noble, nice, unnatural, abnormal

Synonyms:
hateful, tight, mingy, basal, ungenerous, mean(a), humble, base, lowly, average, baseborn, meanspirited, bastardly, beggarly, immoral, miserly
meanadjective

excellent

«famous for a mean backhand»

Antonyms:
abnormal, estimable, noble, rich, unnatural, unskilled, generous, nice

Synonyms:
bastardly, tight, mean(a), base, beggarly, mingy, miserly, meanspirited, hateful, average
beggarly, meanadjective

marked by poverty befitting a beggar

«a beggarly existence in the slums»; «a mean hut»

Antonyms:
abnormal, rich, unnatural, nice, noble, generous, estimable, unskilled

Synonyms:
bastardly, miserly, mean(a), base, beggarly, mingy, meanspirited, tight, hateful, average
mean, mingy, miserly, tightadjective

(used of persons or behavior) characterized by or indicative of lack of generosity

«a mean person»; «he left a miserly tip»

Antonyms:
generous, unnatural, noble, abnormal, estimable, rich, nice, unskilled

Synonyms:
close, pissed, blind drunk, base, mean(a), besotted, slopped, rigorous, mingy, blotto, average, squiffy, pixilated, hateful, cockeyed, crocked, fuddled, tight, soused, compressed, meanspirited, sozzled, taut, nasty, plastered, miserly, stiff, stringent, pie-eyed, bastardly, sloshed, smashed, soaked, loaded, wet, beggarly
beggarly, meanadjective

(used of sums of money) so small in amount as to deserve contempt

Antonyms:
abnormal, rich, noble, generous, nice, unskilled, unnatural, estimable

Synonyms:
bastardly, miserly, mean(a), base, beggarly, mingy, meanspirited, tight, hateful, average
bastardly, meanverb

of no value or worth

«I was caught in the bastardly traffic»

Antonyms:
generous, noble, abnormal, rich, nice, unnatural, estimable, unskilled

Synonyms:
bastardly, misbegot, mean(a), misbegotten, hateful, miserly, spurious, beggarly, base, mingy, meanspirited, tight, average
mean, intendverb

mean or intend to express or convey

«You never understand what I mean!»; «what do his words intend?»

Antonyms:
estimable, unnatural, abnormal, unskilled, generous, noble, rich, nice

Synonyms:
intend, stand for, designate, entail, specify, have in mind, destine, signify, think, imply, think of
entail, imply, meanverb

have as a logical consequence

«The water shortage means that we have to stop taking long showers»

Antonyms:
abnormal, estimable, unnatural, unskilled, rich, noble, nice, generous

Synonyms:
intend, incriminate, involve, implicate, inculpate, entail, have in mind, connote, stand for, signify, fee-tail, think, imply, think of
mean, intend, signify, stand forverb

denote or connote

«`maison’ means `house’ in French»; «An example sentence would show what this word means»

Antonyms:
unnatural, noble, generous, unskilled, abnormal, rich, nice, estimable

Synonyms:
entail, signify, typify, hold still for, represent, destine, stand for, imply, symbolise, specify, have in mind, designate, think, correspond, think of, symbolize, intend
intend, mean, thinkverb

have in mind as a purpose

«I mean no harm»; «I only meant to help you»; «She didn’t think to harm me»; «We thought to return early that night»

Antonyms:
abnormal, nice, generous, unnatural, estimable, noble, rich, unskilled

Synonyms:
entail, call back, signify, guess, recollect, imagine, consider, retrieve, call up, destine, reckon, suppose, stand for, imply, cogitate, specify, conceive, designate, think, cerebrate, recall, remember, think of, opine, have in mind, intend, believe
meanverb

have a specified degree of importance

«My ex-husband means nothing to me»; «Happiness means everything»

Antonyms:
generous, unskilled, noble, estimable, rich, unnatural, nice, abnormal

Synonyms:
intend, stand for, entail, have in mind, signify, think, imply, think of
think of, have in mind, meanverb

intend to refer to

«I’m thinking of good food when I talk about France»; «Yes, I meant you when I complained about people who gossip!»

Antonyms:
nice, rich, abnormal, generous, noble, unnatural, unskilled, estimable

Synonyms:
entail, signify, think up, dream up, entertain, think about, repute, esteem, hatch, stand for, remember, concoct, have in mind, regard as, flirt with, look on, toy with, imply, look upon, think of, take to be, intend, think
meanverb

destine or designate for a certain purpose

«These flowers were meant for you»

Antonyms:
abnormal, unnatural, unskilled, rich, generous, nice, estimable, noble

Synonyms:
intend, stand for, entail, have in mind, signify, think, imply, think of

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meanadjective

Synonyms:
contemptible, despicable, low-minded, base, abject, groveling, dishonorable, shabby, scurvy, servile, menial, undignified, unbecoming, disingenuous, obscure, ignoble, plebeian, inglorious, undistinguished, vulgar, penurious, illiberal, sordid, miserly, stingy, mercenary parsimonious, ungenerous, midway, average, moderate, middle, medium, mediocre, intermediate, mediate, intervening, insignificant, paltry, inconsequential, piddling, frivolous, inferior, poor
meannoun

Synonyms:
middle, medium
meanverb

Synonyms:
intend, purpose, design, contemplate, signify, purport, denote, betoken, imply, typify, indicate

How to use mean in a sentence?

Anna Dodson:

There’s still some ambiguity about what the guidelines mean in practice, but caution is taking hold.
Karine Jean-Pierre:

I mean, The President has multiple issues crises at the moment, when The President walked into the administration, The President talked about the multiple crises that we needed to deal with as a country.
Lisa Natanson:

Just because there are a lot of sharks out there does n’t mean there are going to be more coming in to bite people.
Jonathan White:

We share concern that I think everyone in this room feels. Anytime a child is abused in the care of ORR is one too many, we abide fully with the laws this Congress has passed, in terms of Prison Rape Elimination Act, I mean the Prison Rape Elimination Act and the Violence Against Women Act.
Hillary Clinton:

It’s really hard to do this and people’s campaigns change, you start with something, that doesn’t necessarily mean you’ll stick with it all the way.

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Etymology

1. mean

verb. [‘ˈmiːn’] mean or intend to express or convey.

Etymology

mean (English)
meene (Middle English (1100-1500))
meien (Old French (842-ca. 1400))
mene (Middle English (1100-1500))
menen (Middle English (1100-1500))
mænan (Old English (ca. 450-1100))

2. mean

verb. [‘ˈmiːn’] have as a logical consequence.

Etymology

mean (English)
meene (Middle English (1100-1500))
meien (Old French (842-ca. 1400))
mene (Middle English (1100-1500))
menen (Middle English (1100-1500))
mænan (Old English (ca. 450-1100))

3. mean

verb. [‘ˈmiːn’] have in mind as a purpose.

Etymology

mean (English)
meene (Middle English (1100-1500))
meien (Old French (842-ca. 1400))
mene (Middle English (1100-1500))
menen (Middle English (1100-1500))
mænan (Old English (ca. 450-1100))

4. mean

verb. [‘ˈmiːn’] denote or connote.

Etymology

mean (English)
meene (Middle English (1100-1500))
meien (Old French (842-ca. 1400))
mene (Middle English (1100-1500))
menen (Middle English (1100-1500))
mænan (Old English (ca. 450-1100))

5. mean

adjective. [‘ˈmiːn’] approximating the statistical norm or average or expected value.

Etymology

mean (English)
meene (Middle English (1100-1500))
meien (Old French (842-ca. 1400))
mene (Middle English (1100-1500))
menen (Middle English (1100-1500))
mænan (Old English (ca. 450-1100))

7. mean

adjective. [‘ˈmiːn’] characterized by malice.

Etymology

mean (English)
meene (Middle English (1100-1500))
meien (Old French (842-ca. 1400))
mene (Middle English (1100-1500))
menen (Middle English (1100-1500))
mænan (Old English (ca. 450-1100))

8. mean

verb. [‘ˈmiːn’] intend to refer to.

Etymology

mean (English)
meene (Middle English (1100-1500))
meien (Old French (842-ca. 1400))
mene (Middle English (1100-1500))
menen (Middle English (1100-1500))
mænan (Old English (ca. 450-1100))

9. mean

adjective. [‘ˈmiːn’] having or showing an ignoble lack of honor or morality.

Etymology

mean (English)
meene (Middle English (1100-1500))
meien (Old French (842-ca. 1400))
mene (Middle English (1100-1500))
menen (Middle English (1100-1500))
mænan (Old English (ca. 450-1100))

10. mean

adjective. [‘ˈmiːn’] excellent.

Etymology

mean (English)
meene (Middle English (1100-1500))
meien (Old French (842-ca. 1400))
mene (Middle English (1100-1500))
menen (Middle English (1100-1500))
mænan (Old English (ca. 450-1100))

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