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Mean

verb

(past & past part. meant; pres. part. meaning)

1.

Mean or intend to express or convey. Synonym: intend. "What do his words intend?"

2.

Have as a logical consequence. Synonyms: entail, imply.

3.

Denote or connote. Synonyms: intend, signify, stand for. "An example sentence would show what this word means"

4.

Have in mind as a purpose. Synonyms: intend, think. "I only meant to help you" , "She didn't think to harm me" , "We thought to return early that night"

5.

Have a specified degree of importance. "Happiness means everything"

6.

Intend to refer to. Synonyms: have in mind, think of. "Yes, I meant you when I complained about people who gossip!"

7.

Destine or designate for a certain purpose.

adjective

1.

Approximating the statistical norm or average or expected value. Synonym: average. "Of average height for his age" , "The mean annual rainfall"

2.

Characterized by malice. Synonym: hateful. "In a mean mood"

3.

Having or showing an ignoble lack of honor or morality. Synonyms: base, meanspirited. "Taking a mean advantage" , "Chok'd with ambition of the meaner sort" , "Something essentially vulgar and meanspirited in politics"

4.

Excellent.

5.

Marked by poverty befitting a beggar. Synonym: beggarly. "A mean hut"

6.

(used of persons or behavior) characterized by or indicative of lack of generosity. Synonyms: mingy, miserly, tight. "He left a miserly tip"

7.

(used of sums of money) so small in amount as to deserve contempt. Synonym: beggarly.

8.

Of no value or worth. Synonym: bastardly.

noun

1.

An average of n numbers computed by adding some function of the numbers and dividing by some function of n. Synonym: mean value.

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