Other Words for Mean

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Mean as a Adjective has these synonyms:

average, middle, norm, (happy) medium
Example: We are attempting to achieve the mean between the two extremes.

cantankerous, churlish, nasty, hostile, ill-tempered, bad-tempered, sour, unpleasant
Example: That mean old lady would never even talk to us.

denote, signify, indicate, note, specify, designate, represent, betoken, signal, carry, convey, drive at, refer to, allude to, communicate, express, bring out, get over or across, imply, suggest, connote, intimate, hint (at)
Example: What does 'canicular' mean? It depends on what you mean by 'liberty'. The footprints meant that someone had already been here.

disgraceful, run-down, poor, sorry, miserable, scruffy, seedy, scurvy, shabby, squalid, wretched, vile, mangy, sordid, contemptible, dismal, dreary, abysmal
Example: They live in very mean circumstances.

excellent, wonderful, marvelous, great, exceptional, effective, skilful, skilled, far-out, bad
Example: The saxophonist in that combo is one mean cat.

unkind, malicious, cruel, unaccommodating, disobliging
Example: It was very mean of you to steal that toy from the baby.

Mean as a Noun has these synonyms:

intend, design, purpose, plan, aim, have in mind, contemplate, have in view, want, wish, expect, hope, be motivated by, have as justification
Example: I did mean to phone you but had no time. I am sure she meant nothing by her remark.

middle, centre, intermediate, medial, medium, median, average, middling
Example: The mean temperature for the year has increased.

Mean as a Verb has these synonyms:

carry or have the weight or significance or importance of
Example: Money means little to someone in her circumstances.

lowly, low, base, inferior, abject, menial, servile, degraded, degenerate, undignified, ignoble, plebeian, proletarian, modest, humble, common
Example: He rose to a position of great power in spite of his mean background.

portend, show, foretell, foreshadow, promise, presage, augur, herald
Example: Those clouds mean that it will soon rain.

stingy, miserly, tight, close, cheap, parsimonious, penurious, stinting, niggardly, penny-pinching, tight-fisted, close-fisted, mercenary, uncharitable, ungenerous, mean-spirited, unaccommodating, small, petty, near, money-grubbing, measly
Example: He is far too mean to buy anyone a Christmas present. It seems rather a mean contribution to the fund, given his wealth.

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