Synonyms for mean
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English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:2.0 / 1 vote

1. mean

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

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

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. meanadjective

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

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

2. meanadjective

   Synonyms:
   middle, intermediate, average

   Antonyms:
   extreme, excessive, exorbitant

3. meannoun

   Synonyms:
   medium, moderation, balance, average

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

4. meanverb

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

   Antonyms:
   say, state, enunciate, execute, perform

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:4.5 / 2 votes

1. mean, mean valueadjective

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

   Synonyms:
   mean value

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

2. 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

3. hateful, meanadjective

   characterized by malice

   "a hateful thing to do"; "in a mean mood"

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

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

4. 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"

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

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

5. meanadjective

   excellent

   "famous for a mean backhand"

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

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

6. beggarly, meanadjective

   marked by poverty befitting a beggar

   "a beggarly existence in the slums"; "a mean hut"

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

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

7. 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"

   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

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

8. beggarly, meanadjective

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

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

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

9. bastardly, meanverb

   of no value or worth

   "I was caught in the bastardly traffic"

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

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

10. mean, intendverb

    mean or intend to express or convey

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

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

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

11. entail, imply, meanverb

    have as a logical consequence

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

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

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

12. mean, intend, signify, stand forverb

    denote or connote

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

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

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

13. 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"

    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

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

14. meanverb

    have a specified degree of importance

    "My ex-husband means nothing to me"; "Happiness means everything"

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

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

15. 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!"

    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

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

16. meanverb

    destine or designate for a certain purpose

    "These flowers were meant for you"

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

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

Matched Categories

1. • Associate
   • Convey
   • Intend
   • Necessitate
   • Statistics

Editors ContributionRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. cuvitch

   someone who does not share

   don’t be such a cuvitch

   Submitted by anonymous on December 28, 2020  

2. macabre

   not so nice.

   "why are you so mean mother ginger!"

   Submitted by rinat on August 19, 2019  

3. thin lipped

   the thin lipped person is often portrayed in literature as a mean minded person

   Submitted by annpaterson on January 1, 2020  

4. trundling

   to be a savage or loud

   he was trundling through the depths of the mud

   Submitted by anonymous on May 3, 2020  

5. underbred

   bad mannered, rude.

   the dog was weak and underbred.

   Submitted by anonymous on March 29, 2020  

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. meanadjective

   Synonyms:
   middle, medium, average

2. meanadjective

   Synonyms:
   intermediate, intervening, coming between

3. meanadjective

   Synonyms:
   ignoble, plebeian, untitled, low, base-born, ordinary, common, vulgar, coarse, homespun

4. meanadjective

   Synonyms:
   base, abject, grovelling, vile, contemptible, despicable, servile, beggarly, sneaking, dirty, scurvy, shabby, sorry, disingenuous, unfair, rascally, pitiful, base-minded, low-minded, dishonorable

5. meanadjective

   Synonyms:
   sordid, penurious, miserly, stingy, niggardly, illiberal, ungenerous, selfish, narrow, mercenary, narrow-minded

6. meanadjective

   Synonyms:
   small, little, paltry, insignificant, diminutive, petty, poor, wretched

7. meannoun

   Synonyms:
   medium, mediocrity, middle state, middle course

8. meannoun

   Synonyms:
   instrument, method, mode, way, means

9. meanverb

   Synonyms:
   intend, purpose, design, have in view

10. meanverb

    Synonyms:
    signify, indicate, imply, denote, purport, import, express

11. meanverb

    Synonyms:
    intend, purpose, design, have in view, propose to one's self

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1. 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

2. meannoun

   Synonyms:
   middle, medium

3. meanverb

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

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "mean":

   average, means, say, tell, imply, medium-sized, medium, signify, averages, entail, involve

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MDRate these synonyms:1.0 / 1 vote

1. mean

   Synonyms:
   µ, x-bar

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How to use mean in a sentence?

1. Nancy Hurst:

   You need to just enjoy the relationship -- that is most important to nurture the mother-baby relationship. Even if at times that doesn't mean exclusive breastfeeding.

2. Jim Sensenbrenner:

   Just because a business is big doesn't mean it is bad.

3. Chris Bosio:

   Someone in our coaches ’ room asked me about Daniel Stumpf, and I said, ‘ Oh, you mean,' Spider Monkey.' ’ That’s his nickname. He’s a skinny little white kid who makes all of these funny faces when he works out.

4. Ellen DeGeneres:

   Seventeen years ago, Read MoreThe actress and dancer first season, I saw the Missy Elliott video, and I was like,' There's this little girl in this video that is so good', and Read MoreThe actress and dancer producers found you, had you on the show, and look at you now. I mean it's amazing.

5. Joe Biden:

   It will trigger a significant response, what does that mean?