Synonyms: mean, mean value
Definition: an average of n numbers computed by adding some function of the numbers and dividing by some function of n
Definition: a statistic describing the location of a distribution
Usage: it set the norm for American homes
Synonyms: mean
Definition: destine or designate for a certain purpose
Usage: These flowers were meant for you
Similar words: intend, designate, destine, specify
Definition: design or destine
Usage: She was intended to become the director
Synonyms: have in mind, think of, mean
Definition: intend to refer to
Usage: I'm thinking of good food when I talk about France; Yes, I meant you when I complained about people who gossip!
Similar words: associate, colligate, link, link up, tie in, connect, relate
Definition: make a logical or causal connection
Usage: I cannot connect these two pieces of evidence in my mind; colligate these facts; I cannot relate these events at all
Definition: mean or intend to express or convey
Usage: You never understand what I mean!; what do his words intend?
Similar words: convey
Definition: make known; pass on, of information
Usage: She conveyed the message to me
Definition: have as a logical consequence
Usage: The water shortage means that we have to stop taking long showers
Similar words: necessitate
Definition: cause to be a concomitant
Definition: of no value or worth
Usage: I was caught in the bastardly traffic
Similar words: contemptible
Definition: deserving of contempt or scorn
Definition: (used of sums of money) so small in amount as to deserve contempt
Similar words: ungenerous, stingy
Definition: unwilling to spend
Usage: she practices economy without being stingy; an ungenerous response to the appeal for funds
Synonyms: mingy, miserly, mean, tight
Definition: (used of persons or behavior) characterized by or indicative of lack of generosity
Usage: a mean person; he left a miserly tip
Similar words: ungenerous, stingy
Definition: unwilling to spend
Usage: she practices economy without being stingy; an ungenerous response to the appeal for funds
Definition: characterized by malice
Usage: a hateful thing to do; in a mean mood
Definition: offensive or even (of persons) malicious
Usage: in a nasty mood; a nasty accident; a nasty shock; a nasty smell; a nasty trick to pull; Will he say nasty things at my funeral?- Ezra Pound
Synonyms: base, mean, meanspirited
Definition: having or showing an ignoble lack of honor or morality
Usage: 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
Similar words: ignoble
Definition: completely lacking nobility in character or quality or purpose
Usage: something cowardly and ignoble in his attitude; I think it a less evil that some criminals should escape than that the government should play an ignoble part- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Definition: approximating the statistical norm or average or expected value
Usage: the average income in New England is below that of the nation; of average height for his age; the mean annual rainfall
Similar words: normal
Definition: conforming with or constituting a norm or standard or level or type or social norm; not abnormal
Usage: serve wine at normal room temperature; normal diplomatic relations; normal working hours; normal word order; normal curiosity; the normal course of events
Definition: marked by poverty befitting a beggar
Usage: a beggarly existence in the slums; a mean hut
Similar words: poor
Definition: characterized by or indicating poverty
Usage: the country had a poor economy; they lived in the poor section of town
Synonyms: mean
Definition: excellent
Usage: famous for a mean backhand
Similar words: skilled
Definition: having or showing or requiring special skill
Usage: only the most skilled gymnasts make an Olympic team; a skilled surgeon has many years of training and experience; a skilled reconstruction of her damaged elbow; a skilled trade