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Adjective mean has 7 senses
- average, mean - 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"
Antonym: abnormal (indirect, via normal)
- hateful, mean - characterized by malice; "a hateful thing to do"; "in a mean mood"
Antonym: nice (indirect, via nasty)
- base, mean, meanspirited - 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"
Antonym: noble (indirect, via ignoble)
- mean - excellent; "famous for a mean backhand"
Antonym: unskilled (indirect, via skilled)
- beggarly, mean - marked by poverty befitting a beggar; "a beggarly existence in the slums"; "a mean hut"
Antonym: rich (indirect, via poor)
- mean, mingy, miserly, tight - used of persons or behavior; characterized by or indicative of lack of generosity; "a mean person"; "he left a miserly tip"
Antonym: generous (indirect, via stingy)
- beggarly, mean - used of sums of money; so small in amount as to deserve contempt
Antonym: generous (indirect, via stingy)
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