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Antonyms for mean
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This page is about all possible antonyms and opposite words for the term mean.
English Synonyms and Antonyms
mean
Antonyms:
alarming, appalling, august, awful, dire, direful, dread, dreadful, fearful, frightful, grand, horrible, imposing, majestic, noble, portentous, shocking, solemn, stately, terrible, terrificSynonyms:
base, beggarly, commonplace, contemptible, despicable, humble, inferior, lowly, paltry, undignified, vulgar
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
meanadjective
Antonyms:
high, exalted, eminent, spirited, honorable, lordly, princely, munificent, liberal, generousSynonyms:
common, low, base, spiritless, dishonorable, contemptible, despicable, beggarly, sordid, vulgar, niggardly, vilemeanadjective
Antonyms:
extreme, excessive, exorbitantSynonyms:
middle, intermediate, averagemeannoun
Antonyms:
extreme, excess, preponderance, disproportion, deficiency, shortcoming, inadequacySynonyms:
medium, moderation, balance, averagemeanverb
Antonyms:
say, state, enunciate, execute, performSynonyms:
intend, purpose, design, signify, denote, indicate, hint, suggest
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Princeton's WordNet
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, unskilledSynonyms:
mean valueaverage, 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, estimablehateful, meanadjective
characterized by malice
"a hateful thing to do"; "in a mean mood"
Antonyms:
unnatural, nice, abnormal, rich, noble, generous, estimable, unskilledSynonyms:
bastardly, miserly, mean(a), base, beggarly, mingy, meanspirited, tight, hateful, averagebase, 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, abnormalSynonyms:
hateful, tight, mingy, basal, ungenerous, mean(a), humble, base, lowly, average, baseborn, meanspirited, bastardly, beggarly, immoral, miserlymeanadjective
excellent
"famous for a mean backhand"
Antonyms:
abnormal, estimable, noble, rich, unnatural, unskilled, generous, niceSynonyms:
bastardly, tight, mean(a), base, beggarly, mingy, miserly, meanspirited, hateful, averagebeggarly, meanadjective
marked by poverty befitting a beggar
"a beggarly existence in the slums"; "a mean hut"
Antonyms:
abnormal, rich, unnatural, nice, noble, generous, estimable, unskilledSynonyms:
bastardly, miserly, mean(a), base, beggarly, mingy, meanspirited, tight, hateful, averagemean, 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, unskilledSynonyms:
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, beggarlybeggarly, meanadjective
(used of sums of money) so small in amount as to deserve contempt
Antonyms:
abnormal, rich, noble, generous, nice, unskilled, unnatural, estimableSynonyms:
bastardly, miserly, mean(a), base, beggarly, mingy, meanspirited, tight, hateful, averagebastardly, meanverb
of no value or worth
"I was caught in the bastardly traffic"
Antonyms:
generous, noble, abnormal, rich, nice, unnatural, estimable, unskilledSynonyms:
bastardly, misbegot, mean(a), misbegotten, hateful, miserly, spurious, beggarly, base, mingy, meanspirited, tight, averagemean, 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, niceSynonyms:
intend, stand for, designate, entail, specify, have in mind, destine, signify, think, imply, think ofentail, 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, generousSynonyms:
intend, incriminate, involve, implicate, inculpate, entail, have in mind, connote, stand for, signify, fee-tail, think, imply, think ofmean, 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, estimableSynonyms:
entail, signify, typify, hold still for, represent, destine, stand for, imply, symbolise, specify, have in mind, designate, think, correspond, think of, symbolize, intendintend, 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, unskilledSynonyms:
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, believemeanverb
have a specified degree of importance
"My ex-husband means nothing to me"; "Happiness means everything"
Antonyms:
generous, unskilled, noble, estimable, rich, unnatural, nice, abnormalSynonyms:
intend, stand for, entail, have in mind, signify, think, imply, think ofthink 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, estimableSynonyms:
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, thinkmeanverb
destine or designate for a certain purpose
"These flowers were meant for you"
Antonyms:
abnormal, unnatural, unskilled, rich, generous, nice, estimable, nobleSynonyms:
intend, stand for, entail, have in mind, signify, think, imply, think of
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
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, poormeannoun
meanverb
Synonyms:
intend, purpose, design, contemplate, signify, purport, denote, betoken, imply, typify, indicate
Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MD
mean
Synonyms:
µ, x-bar
How to use mean in a sentence?
Things are looking positive since the shopping season coincided with a big drop in crude oil, which means lower gas prices, that translates to more disposable income, which could mean stronger retail sales.
It's nice for us to have trees and landscapes, but we could do that with half of the water, it's not like it's going to mean the end of our economy or the end of our way of life.
It would mean that countries have to collaborate forever.
The German economy isn't fully booming. There aren't significant problems, but there are stutters. And if the Volkswagen scandal deepens, then Brand Germany might lose its appeal, they have an artificially weak currency, and monetary policy should remain loose. Weaker data should ultimately mean the ECB maintains ultra-easy monetary policy, which will be good for Germany.
I can’t vote for you, not if you’re not going to answer the questions, i mean that was embarrassing.
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#111 | state | |
#164 | high | |
#496 | say | |
#560 | august | |
#1008 | mean | |
#1157 | nice | |
#1450 | grand | |
#2169 | rich | |
#2614 | perform | |
#2685 | extreme | |
#4110 | liberal | |
#4133 | excess | |
#5214 | noble | |
#6859 | execute | |
#6918 | terrible | |
#8094 | excessive | |
#8709 | horrible | |
#9248 | generous | |
#9775 | awful | |
#10765 | deficiency | |
#11656 | abnormal | |
#12244 | terrific | |
#12949 | honorable | |
#13306 | majestic | |
#14061 | shocking | |
#15704 | imposing | |
#16120 | dire | |
#16239 | eminent | |
#19606 | spirited | |
#19676 | dread | |
#22989 | fearful | |
#23144 | alarming | |
#23190 | dreadful | |
#24854 | solemn | |
#26755 | stately | |
#27071 | unnatural | |
#27462 | exalted | |
#29891 | appalling | |
#35413 | unskilled | |
#38913 | preponderance | |
#43809 | inadequacy | |
#54515 | frightful | |
#55433 | exorbitant | |
#55818 | shortcoming | |
#60050 | princely | |
#103496 | estimable | |
#128829 | lordly | |
#129078 | portentous | |
#143686 | disproportion | |
#165665 | enunciate | |
#241485 | munificent |
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