MEAN
Definition:
- [noun] an average of n numbers computed by adding some function of the numbers and dividing by some function of n
Synonyms: value
- [verb] mean or intend to express or convey; "You never understand what I mean!"; "what do his words intend?"
Synonyms: intend
- [verb] have as a logical consequence; "The water shortage means that we have to stop taking long showers"
Synonyms: entail, imply
- [verb] denote or connote; "`maison' means `house' in French"; "An example sentence would show what this word means"
Synonyms: intend, signify, stand for
- [verb] 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"
Synonyms: intend, think
- [verb] have a specified degree of importance; "My ex-husband means nothing to me"; "Happiness means everything"
- [verb] 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!"
Synonyms: think of, have in mind
- [verb] destine or designate for a certain purpose; "These flowers were meant for you"
- [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"
Synonyms: average
- [adjective] characterized by malice; "a hateful thing to do"; "in a mean mood"
Synonyms: hateful
- [adjective] 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"
Synonyms: base, spirited
- [adjective] excellent; "famous for a mean backhand"
- [adjective] marked by poverty befitting a beggar; "a beggarly existence in the slums"; "a mean hut"
Synonyms: beggarly
- [adjective] used of persons or behavior; characterized by or indicative of lack of generosity; "a mean person"; "he left a miserly tip"
Synonyms: mingy, miserly, tight
- [adjective] used of sums of money; so small in amount as to deserve contempt
Synonyms: beggarly
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Related Words:
- typify, symbolize, symbolise, stand for, represent
- denote, refer
- signify
- spell, import
- aim
- drive, get, aim
- design
- plan, be after
- aim, purpose, purport, propose
- mention, advert, bring up, cite, name, refer
- arithmetic mean, first moment, expectation, expected value
- geometric mean
- harmonic mean