Word Meanings - MEAN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

menen, AS. mænan to recite, tell, intend, wish; akin to OS. menian to have in mind, mean, D. meenen, G. meinen, OHG. meinan, Icel. meina, 1. To have in the mind, as a purpose, intention, etc.; to intend; to purpose; to design; as, what do you

Additional info about word: MEAN

menen, AS. mænan to recite, tell, intend, wish; akin to OS. menian to have in mind, mean, D. meenen, G. meinen, OHG. meinan, Icel. meina, 1. To have in the mind, as a purpose, intention, etc.; to intend; to purpose; to design; as, what do you mean to do What mean ye by this service Ex. xii. 26. Ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good. Gen. 1. 20. I am not a Spaniard To say that it is yours and not to mean it. Longfellow. 2. To signify; to indicate; to import; to denote. What mean these seven ewe lambs Gen. xxi. 29. Go ye, and learn what that me. Matt. ix. 13.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of MEAN)

• Aim Seek
• level
• propose
• design
• affect
• intend
• mean
• purpose
• Average
• Mean
• medium
• middle
• mediocre
• Base \adj Vile
• dishonorable
• low
• sordid
• ignoble
• worthiest
• infamous
• shameful
• grovelling
• disingenuous
• disesteemed
• cheap
• corrupt
• deep
• Cheap
• Common
• inexpensive
• uncostly
• vile
• worthless
• low-priced
• Ordinary
• familiar
• habitual
• everyday
• frequent
• coarse
• vulgar
• universal

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of MEAN)

• Mend
• repair
• purify
• cleanse
• correct
• ameliorate
• better
• Roughen
• furrow
• disequalize
• graduate
• Chance
• risk
• hazard
• revoke
• Miscalculate
• venture
• stake

Related words: (words related to MEAN)

• FAMILIARLY
  In a familiar manner.
• FREQUENTATIVE
  Serving to express the frequent repetition of an action; as, a frequentative verb. -- n.
• CHANCELLERY
  Chancellorship. Gower.
• HAZARDIZE
  A hazardous attempt or situation; hazard. Herself had run into that hazardize. Spenser.
• MIDDLE
  1. Equally distant from the extreme either of a number of things or of one thing; mean; medial; as, the middle house in a row; a middle rank or station in life; flowers of middle summer; men of middle age. 2. Intermediate; intervening.
• DESIGN
  drawing, dessein a plan or scheme; all, ultimately, from L. designare to designate; de- + signare to mark, mark out, signum mark, sign. See 1. To draw preliminary outline or main features of; to sketch for a pattern or model; to delineate; to trace
• REVOKER
  One who revokes.
• SORDIDNESS
  The quality or state of being sordid.
• DESIGNATE
  Designated; appointed; chosen. Sir G. Buck.
• INFAMOUSNESS
  The state or quality of being infamous; infamy.
• PURIFY
  1. To make pure or clear from material defilement, admixture, or imperfection; to free from extraneous or noxious matter; as, to purify liquors or metals; to purify the blood; to purify the air. 2. Hence, in figurative uses: To free from guilt
• AFFECTATIONIST
  One who exhibits affectation. Fitzed. Hall.
• PURPOSELESS
  Having no purpose or result; objectless. Bp. Hall. -- Pur"pose*less*ness, n.
• CORRECTLY
  In a correct manner; exactly; acurately; without fault or error.
• CORRUPTIONIST
  One who corrupts, or who upholds corruption. Sydney Smith.
• CHEAPLY
  At a small price; at a low value; in a common or inferior manner.
• CORRUPTIBLE
  1. Capable of being made corrupt; subject to decay. "Our corruptible bodies." Hooker. Ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold. 1 Pet. i. 18. 2. Capable of being corrupted, or morally vitiated; susceptible of depravation.
• VENTURESOME
  Inclined to venture; not loth to run risk or danger; venturous; bold; daring; adventurous; as, a venturesome boy or act. -- Ven"ture*some*ly, adv. -- Ven"ture*some*ness, n.
• COMMONER
  1. One of the common people; one having no rank of nobility. All below them even their children, were commoners, and in the eye law equal to each other. Hallam. 2. A member of the House of Commons. 3. One who has a joint right in common ground.
• INTENDENT
  See N
• DISVENTURE
  A disadventure. Shelton.
• OVERFREQUENT
  Too frequent.
• UNCOMMON
  Not common; unusual; infrequent; rare; hence, remarkable; strange; as, an uncommon season; an uncommon degree of cold or heat; uncommon courage. Syn. -- Rare; scarce; infrequent; unwonted. -- Un*com"mon*ly, adv. -- Un*com"mon*ness, n.
• OVERAFFECT
  To affect or care for unduly. Milton.
• MISAFFECT
  To dislike.
• FELLOW-COMMONER
  A student at Cambridge University, England, who commons, or dines, at the Fellow's table.
• SEA LEVEL
  The level of the surface of the sea; any surface on the same level with the sea.