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Verb: mean (meant) meen- Mean or intend to express or convey
"You never understand what I mean!"
- intend - Have as a logical consequence
"The water shortage means that we have to stop taking long showers"
- entail, imply - Denote or connote
"'maison' means 'house' in French"; "An example sentence would show what this word means"
- intend, signify, stand for - Have in mind as a purpose
"I mean no harm"; "I only meant to help you"
- intend, think - Have a specified degree of importance
"My ex-husband means nothing to me"; "Happiness means everything" - Intend to refer to
"Yes, I meant you when I complained about people who gossip!"
- think of, have in mind - Destine or designate for a certain purpose
"These flowers were meant for you"
Adjective: mean (meaner,meanest) meen- Approximating the statistical norm or average or expected value
"the mean annual rainfall"
- average - Characterized by malice
"in a mean mood"
- hateful - Having or showing an ignoble lack of honour or morality
"taking a mean advantage"; "chok'd with ambition of the meaner sort"
- base, meanspirited - Excellent
"famous for a mean backhand" - Marked by poverty befitting a beggar
"a mean hut"
- beggarly - (used of persons or behaviour) characterized by or indicative of lack of generosity
"a mean person"
- mingy, miserly, tight - (used of sums of money) so small in amount as to deserve contempt
- beggarly - Of no value or worth
- bastardly
Noun: mean meen- An average of n numbers computed by adding some function of the numbers and dividing by some function of n
- mean value
Sounds like: mien, mesne Derived forms: means, meant, meaner, meaning, meanest See also: awful, contemptible, ignoble, meaning, meanly, meanness, nasty, normal, poor, skilled, stingy, ungenerous Type of: associate, average, colligate, connect, convey, designate, destine, intend, link, link up, necessitate, norm, relate, specify, tie in Encyclopedia: Mean |