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mean

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

(used of persons or behavior) characterized by or indicative of lack of generosity; "a mean person"; "he left a miserly tip"

excellent; "famous for a mean backhand"

destine or designate for a certain purpose; "These flowers were meant for you"

denote or connote; "`maison' means `house' in French"; "An example sentence would show what this word means"

mean or intend to express or convey; "You never understand what I mean!"; "what do his words intend?"

have a specified degree of importance; "My ex-husband means nothing to me"; "Happiness means everything"

Synonyms:

• Herculean,
• Lenten,
• Mickey Mouse,
• OK,
• Spartan,
• abject,
• abominable,
• absolutely,
• abstemious,
• abstruse,
• abysmal,
• ace-high,
• add up to,
• affect,
• agency,
• agent,
• ailing,
• aim,
• aim at,
• allegorize,
• allude to,
• amidships,
• apparatus,
• approach,
• arduous,
• argue,
• arrant,
• ascetic,
• aspire after,
• aspire to,
• assets,
• assume,
• assuredly,
• at all events,
• at any cost,
• atrocious,
• attest,
• augur,
• austere,
• authoritarian,
• avenue,
• average,
• backing,
• bad,
• bad-tempered,
• baleful,
• banal,
• bang-up,
• base,
• base-minded,
• baseborn,
• be after,
• be construed as,
• be indicative of,
• be significant of,
• be symptomatic of,
• bearish,
• beggarly,
• below the salt,
• beneath contempt,
• bespeak,
• betoken,
• bigot,
• bigoted,
• bitchy,
• bonzer,
• borne,
• boss,
• brandish,
• breathe,
• bring forth,
• bring forward,
• bring into view,
• bring out,
• bring to mind,
• bring to notice,
• brutal,
• bully,
• bundle,
• but good,
• by all means,
• by dint of,
• by means of,
• by no means,
• by way of,
• cankered,
• cantankerous,
• capital,
• carry,
• center,
• central,
• certainly,
• channel,
• characterize,
• cheap,
• cheesy,
• churlish,
• close,
• closed,
• coarse,
• cockney,
• common,
• commonplace,
• communicate,
• complex,
• compromise,
• connote,
• constricted,
• contemplate,
• contemptible,
• convey,
• cool,
• core,
• corking,
• count,
• course,
• crabbed,
• crackerjack,
• cramped,
• cranky,
• creedbound,
• critical,
• cross,
• cross-grained,
• cruel,
• crummy,
• crusty,
• cussed,
• dandy,
• dangle,
• deaf,
• deaf to reason,
• debased,
• declasse,
• deficient,
• definitely,
• degenerate,
• degraded,
• delicate,
• delicious,
• demanding,
• demonstrate,
• denominate,
• denote,
• depraved,
• design,
• designate,
• desire,
• despicable,
• destine,
• determine,
• develop,
• diameter,
• diaphragm,
• differentiate,
• difficile,
• difficult,
• dirty,
• disagreeable,
• disclose,
• disgraceful,
• disgusting,
• dismal,
• disobliging,
• display,
• divine,
• divulge,
• donsie,
• dramatize,
• dreary,
• drive at,
• ducky,
• dwarfed,
• dwarfish,
• effective,
• embody,
• enact,
• entail,
• equator,
• equatorial,
• equidistant,
• equipment,
• estate,
• evidence,
• evince,
• exacting,
• excellent,
• exceptional,
• excitable,
• execrable,
• exhibit,
• exiguous,
• expect,
• expose to view,
• express,
• fab,
• fair,
• fairish,
• fanatical,
• fashion,
• feisty,
• fence,
• finances,
• fine and dandy,
• flagrant,
• flaunt,
• flourish,
• foreshadow,
• foretell,
• foretoken,
• formidable,
• fortune,
• foul,
• fourth-class,
• fractious,
• frugal,
• fulsome,
• funds,
• gaudy,
• gear,
• get across,
• get over,
• gimcracky,
• give evidence,
• give sign,
• give token,
• go for,
• golden mean,
• grave,
• great,
• groovy,
• gross,
• grudging,
• hack,
• hairy,
• half measures,
• half-and-half measures,
• halfway,
• halfway measures,
• happy medium,
• harbor a design,
• hard,
• hard-earned,
• hard-fought,
• harmful,
• hateful,
• have every intention,
• have in mind,
• have in view,
• heart,
• heavy,
• heinous,
• herald,
• hidebound,
• highlight,
• hint,
• hint at,
• holdings,
• homely,
• hope,
• hostile,
• hot,
• huffish,
• huffy,
• humble,
• humble-looking,
• humble-visaged,
• humblest,
• hunky-dory,
• identify,
• ignoble,
• ill-tempered,
• illiberal,
• illuminate,
• imperfect,
• implicate,
• imply,
• import,
• impoverished,
• in any case,
• in any event,
• in no way,
• inadequate,
• incarnate,
• incompetent,
• indicate,
• indifferent,
• indisposed,
• ineffectual,
• infer,
• inferior,
• inglorious,
• iniquitous,
• innocuous,
• insinuate,
• instrument,
• instrumentality,
• instrumentation,
• insufficient,
• insular,
• intangibles,
• intend,
• intercurrent,
• interior,
• interjacent,
• intermediary,
• intermediate,
• intervenient,
• intervening,
• intimate,
• intricate,
• invidious,
• involve,
• irascible,
• irregular,
• irritable,
• jam-up,
• jawbreaking,
• jejune,
• just dandy,
• keen,
• kernel,
• knotted,
• knotty,
• laborious,
• lean,
• least,
• limited,
• little,
• little-minded,
• low,
• low-class,
• low-down,
• low-grade,
• low-minded,
• low-quality,
• low-test,
• lowborn,
• lowbred,
• lowest,
• lowliest,
• lowly,
• lumpen,
• machinery,
• make clear,
• make plain,
• maladroit,
• malefic,
• maleficent,
• malicious,
• malign,
• malignant,
• mangy,
• manifest,
• manner,
• mark,
• marvy,
• materialize,
• meager,
• mean,
• mean to say,
• mean-minded,
• mean-spirited,
• means,
• measly,
• medial,
• median,
• mediocre,
• mediterranean,
• medium,
• menial,
• mercenary,
• meretricious,
• mesial,
• mesne,
• method,
• mezzo,
• mid,
• middle,
• middle course,
• middle ground,
• middle way,
• middle-of-the-road,
• middlemost,
• middling,
• midland,
• midmost,
• midriff,
• midships,
• midst,
• midway,
• mind,
• mingy,
• ministry,
• miserable,
• miserly,
• mode,
• moderate,
• moderateness,
• moderation,
• modest,
• money,
• moneybags,
• monstrous,
• name,
• narrow,
• narrow-hearted,
• narrow-minded,
• narrow-souled,
• narrow-spirited,
• nasty,
• near,
• nearsighted,
• neat,
• nefarious,
• nest egg,
• neutral ground,
• nifty,
• niggard,
• niggardly,
• no matter what,
• no picnic,
• no way,
• nobby,
• nonclerical,
• norm,
• normal,
• not at all,
• not comparable,
• not easy,
• not in it,
• note,
• noxious,
• nuclear,
• nucleus,
• obnoxious,
• odious,
• of course,
• okay,
• on no account,
• operose,
• ordinary,
• organ,
• ornery,
• out of it,
• out of sight,
• paltry,
• par,
• parade,
• paraphernalia,
• parochial,
• parsimonious,
• pathetic,
• peachy,
• peachy-keen,
• penny-pinching,
• penurious,
• perform,
• perverse,
• pesky,
• petty,
• pile,
• pinchpenny,
• pitiable,
• pitiful,
• plain,
• plan,
• plebeian,
• pocket,
• point indirectly to,
• point to,
• poky,
• poor,
• portend,
• position,
• positively,
• possessions,
• prefigure,
• preindicate,
• presage,
• present,
• presign,
• presignal,
• presignify,
• presume,
• presuppose,
• pretypify,
• procedure,
• process,
• produce,
• project,
• proletarian,
• promise,
• property,
• propose,
• provincial,
• punk,
• puny,
• purblind,
• purport,
• purpose,
• purse,
• rank,
• refer to,
• represent,
• reptilian,
• reserves,
• resolve,
• resources,
• reveal,
• rigorous,
• ripping,
• roll out,
• rough,
• routine,
• rubbishy,
• rude,
• rugged,
• rum,
• run-down,
• sad,
• savings,
• scabby,
• scant,
• scanty,
• scrawny,
• scrimp,
• scrimpy,
• scrubby,
• scruffy,
• scrumptious,
• scummy,
• scurvy,
• scuzzy,
• second-best,
• second-class,
• second-rate,
• seedy,
• servile,
• set,
• set forth,
• set with thorns,
• severe,
• shabby,
• shabby-genteel,
• shoddy,
• shortsighted,
• show,
• show forth,
• signal,
• signify,
• simple,
• skilled,
• skimp,
• skimpy,
• slap-up,
• slavish,
• sleazy,
• slender,
• slight,
• slim,
• small,
• small-minded,
• smashing,
• snappish,
• so-so,
• solid,
• something else,
• sordid,
• sorry,
• sour,
• spare,
• sparing,
• specify,
• spell,
• spiffing,
• spiffy,
• spiny,
• spiteful,
• spleeny,
• splenetic,
• spotlight,
• squalid,
• stand for,
• standard,
• starvation,
• steep,
• stingy,
• stinted,
• stinting,
• straitened,
• straitlaced,
• strenuous,
• stuffy,
• stunning,
• stunted,
• submissive,
• subservient,
• subsistence,
• substance,
• suggest,
• support,
• suppose,
• surely,
• swell,
• symbolize,
• symptomatize,
• symptomize,
• system,
• tacky,
• take for granted,
• tatty,
• teachable,
• technique,
• testify,
• testy,
• thick,
• thick of things,
• thin,
• think,
• third-class,
• third-estate,
• third-rate,
• thorny,
• through,
• ticklish,
• tight,
• tight-fisted,
• tightfisted,
• tinny,
• toilsome,
• token,
• tough,
• trashy,
• tricky,
• trot out,
• troublous,
• trumpery,
• two-for-a-cent,
• two-for-a-penny,
• twopenny,
• twopenny-halfpenny,
• typify,
• ugly,
• unaccommodating,
• uncatholic,
• uncharitable,
• unchivalrous,
• undignified,
• undistinguished,
• unfold,
• ungenerous,
• ungenteel,
• unimportant,
• unkind,
• unliberal,
• unmentionable,
• unnourishing,
• unnutritious,
• unpleasant,
• unpretentious,
• unskillful,
• unwashed,
• uphill,
• using,
• usual,
• valueless,
• vehicle,
• vexatious,
• via,
• via media,
• vile,
• vulgar,
• waist,
• waistline,
• want,
• waspish,
• watered,
• watery,
• wave,
• way,
• ways,
• wealth,
• weigh,
• wherewithal,
• wicked,
• wish,
• without fail,
• wizard,
• wonderful,
• worthless,
• wretched,
• zone