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Meaning mean meaning

What does mean mean?
Definitions in simple English

mean Verb

— A word means something when the word expresses the same idea as the other something. Slay means kill. Both of them mean to make dead.

mean Adjective

— When you are a mean person, you are not nice. The boys who hit you were very mean.

mean Noun

— The mean is a measure of the average of a list of numbers. The sum total of the numbers divided by how many numbers in the list. The mean of the numbers 2,3,4 is 3. (2+3+4)/3 = 9/3 = 3.

mean

— verb (= intend) mean or intend to express or convey You never understand what I mean! what do his words intend? — verb have as a logical consequence The water shortage means that we have to stop taking long showers — verb denote or connote 'maison' means 'house' in French An example sentence would show what this word means — verb (= think) 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 — adjective (= average) 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 — noun an average of n numbers computed by adding some function of the numbers and dividing by some function of n — verb have a specified degree of importance My ex-husband means nothing to me Happiness means everything — verb (= think of) 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! — adjective (= hateful) characterized by malice a hateful thing to do in a mean mood — adjective (= base, 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 — adjective excellent famous for a mean backhand — adjective (= miserly) (used of persons or behavior) characterized by or indicative of lack of generosity a mean person he left a miserly tip — verb destine or designate for a certain purpose These flowers were meant for you — adjective (= beggarly) (used of sums of money) so small in amount as to deserve contempt — adjective (= bastardly) of no value or worth I was caught in the bastardly traffic — adjective (= beggarly) marked by poverty befitting a beggar a beggarly existence in the slums a mean hut

Synonyms mean synonyms

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mean English » English

base average low vile stingy intend signify miserly nasty contemptible imply despicable middle bad medium ignoble denote median indicate wicked think stand for greedy aim wretched miserable shabby represent poor inferior evil worthless vulgar say rotten mean value humble dirty cruel way sordid purpose plan malicious have in mind foul beggarly abject unkind ungenerous

Topics mean topics

What do people use mean to talk about?
Language and thought Communication Interpreting messages

Show, indicate
States Quantity All

Average
Language and thought Want Decide, plan

Purpose, goal
Language and thought Emotion Feel bad Sad

Dislike
Language and thought Communication Interpreting messages

Meaning
States Quality Good

Bad
States Location Here, there Beside

Between
Language and thought Want Decide, plan

Deliberately
Language and thought Want Decide, plan

Intend
Language and thought Want Decide, plan

Determined
Social behavior Behavior

Love
Grammar

General words
Grammar Connected with, related Discourse markers

Markers of identificational and explanatory clauses

Conjugation mean conjugation

How do you conjugate mean?

mean · verb

Examples mean examples

How do I use mean in a sentence?

Simple sentences

I don't know what you mean.
What do you mean you don't know?!
I didn't mean to hurt you.
I don't get what you mean.
You can read ten books in a week? Don't you mean in a month?
We didn't mean to leave Mary out of the plan.
I didn't mean to eavesdrop on your talk.
He didn't mean to hurt you.
Come on, I didn't mean to hurt you.
What does TATOEBA mean?
I think you know what I mean.
Sorry, I didn't mean to snap at you.
I may be antisocial, but it doesn't mean I don't talk to people.
If you look at the lyrics, they don't really mean much.
If you look at the song's lyrics, they really don't mean much.
I don't understand what you mean.
I do not know what you mean.
I didn't mean for this to happen.
I didn't mean that to happen.
What does it mean to have an educated mind in the 21st century?
It doesn't mean anything!
It doesn't mean anything.
I didn't mean to give you that impression.
Do you mean you hide your beauty intentionally?

Movie subtitles

I mean why make a big deal with just one shirt.
By future, do you mean marriage?
There are those who will want it to mean something and will start to analyze it.
By student, do you mean a high-schooler?
What do you mean by comrade?!
I mean with Japanese.
I didn't mean to use it!
So, does all this mean that Western civilization itself could soon be history?
Does it mean no worries for the rest of our days?
Excuse me, sir, but what exactly does that phrase mean?
You mean the Mormon prophet Joseph Smith?
I mean, maybe we should just. say. we had some baptisms.
What? You mean, lie?
I didn't mean to.
That's not what I mean. You're.
But. There are those who will want it to mean something and will start to analyze it.
What do you mean by comrade?
Higher frequencies mean shorter wavelengths.
Lower frequencies mean longer wavelengths.
Don't forget republican principles mean liberty, equality and fraternity for everyone, including Arabs.
What do you mean?
Hadjouts are very mean.
He's just mean.
In practice, what does it mean?
I mean, it's too risky, too dangerous.
What do you mean by that?
Why do you mean, what do I mean? It's obvious that they're the ones who attacked us.
Don't you mean a preemptive strike?
I mean, your whole crew's scared.
I mean, extremists.
Does that mean that we can.?
Halve them you mean.
I mean.
We should call ourselves names that mean something.
No, I mean something.
Listen, I know I said some things...but you boys mean a lot to me, all right?

News and current affairs

But this does not mean that we are morally good, or good enough.
But that doesn't mean that it won't work, at least for a time.
There are some who say that this would mean a loss of influence on the part of those countries which choose not to integrate more closely.
Keeping the pound does not mean that we oppose the Euro, or hope for its failure.
The advanced countries might mean Bangladesh and the disappearing island states no harm, but no war could be more devastating.
This does not mean an increase in overall taxation, but simply a substitution in each country of a pollution (carbon) tax for some current taxes.
But this does not mean that we should just cut all emissions.
Using some of it to pay the real interest on the debt and saving the rest would mean that when the bill comes due, the tax-financed reserves generated by the healthier economy would be more than enough to pay off the additional national debt.
How can growth be revived when austerity will almost surely mean a further decrease in aggregate demand, sending output and employment even lower?
Adopting this approach does not mean abandoning mainstream economics--far from it.
However, being radical does not necessarily mean being irrational, and revolutionary Iran has given frequent proof of its pragmatism.
But this does not mean that these donors are not altruistic.
But could doesn't mean will.
Failure would mean succumbing to a mid-air stall, with tepid forward motion giving way to a sudden loss of altitude.
That doesn't mean that we are advocating a move to socialism; we want better and smarter regulation, not regulation for its own sake.
Does that mean that safety is paramount in the US, but not in Britain?
Adaptation would also mean saving many lives from catastrophes not related to global warming.
Neither event is earth shattering, but, taken together, these two steps mean that a new system of international justice is working.
Fewer remittances flowing into Uganda could mean less economic activity - or simply lower prices.
This does not mean that all efforts to build a more moral world are doomed.
Just because European governments have failed to put bread on their constituents' tables doesn't mean that the European Central Bank should likewise fail in its job of promoting price stability in the euro zone.

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