verb
To have as meaning
To have in mind
To design for
modified
Small-minded
Of low estate
Vicious
Stingy
Average
mean suggests a contemptible pettiness or unkindness of character or conduct his mean attempts to slander her; base implies a dishonorable putting of one's own interests ahead of one's obligations, as because of greed or cowardice base motives; ignoble suggests a lack of high moral or intellectual qualities to work for an ignoble end; abject implies debasement and a contemptible lack of self-respect an abject coward; sordid connotes the depressing drabness of that which is mean or base the sordid details of their affair; vile suggests disgusting foulness or depravity vile epithets; low suggests rather generally coarseness, vulgarity, depravity, etc., specif. in reference to taking grossly unfair advantage so low as to steal from one's own mother; degrading suggests a lowering or corruption of moral standards or a lowering of self-respect or dignity the degrading aspects of prison life
See mean in Webster's New World Roget's A-Z Thesaurus II
Something, as a type, number, quantity, or degree, that represents a midpoint between extremes on a scale of valuation:
average, median, medium, norm, par. See usualThat by which something is accomplished or some end achieved.
Used in plural: agency, agent, instrument, instrumentality, instrumentation, intermediary, mechanism, medium, organ. See meansAll things, such as money, property, or goods, having economic value.
Used in plural: asset (used in plural), capital, fortune, resource (used in plural), wealth, wherewithal. See ownedNot extreme:
central, intermediate, medial, median, mid, middle, middle-of-the-road, midway. See edgeCharacterized by intense ill will or spite:
black, despiteful, evil, hateful, malevolent, malicious, malign, malignant, nasty, poisonous, spiteful, venomous, vicious, wicked. (Slang) bitchy. See attitudeHaving or proceeding from low moral standards:
base2, ignoble, low, low-down, sordid, squalid, vile. See rightUngenerously or pettily reluctant to spend money:
cheap, close, close-fisted, costive, hard-fisted, miserly, niggard, niggardly, parsimonious, penny-pinching, penurious, petty, pinching, stingy, tight, tightfisted. See giveOf low or lower quality:
common, inferior, low-grade, low-quality, mediocre, second-class, second-rate, shabby, substandard. See betterOf little distinction:
humble, lowly, simple. See plainLacking high station or birth:
baseborn, common, déclassé, declassed, humble, ignoble, lowly, plebeian, unwashed, vulgar. (Archaic) base2. See overAffected or tending to be affected with minor health problems:
ailing, indisposed, low, off-color, rocky, sickly. Idiom: under the weather. See healthSo objectionable as to elicit despisal or deserve condemnation:
abhorrent, abominable, antipathetic, contemptible, despicable, despisable, detestable, disgusting, filthy, foul, infamous, loathsome, lousy, low, nasty, nefarious, obnoxious, odious, repugnant, rotten, shabby, vile, wretched. See goodHaving or showing a bad temper:
bad-tempered, cantankerous, crabbed, cranky, cross, disagreeable, fretful, grouchy, grumpy, ill-tempered, irascible, irritable, nasty, peevish, petulant, querulous, snappish, snappy, surly, testy, ugly, waspish. (Informal) crabby. Idiom: out of sorts. See attitudeHard to treat, manage, or cope with:
troublesome, wicked. (Informal) pesky. See easySee mean in American Heritage Dictionary 4 Synonyms
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