Synonyms of the word

mean

• v. To intend.
• v. To convey meaning.
• v. (transitive) To have conviction in (something said or expressed); to be sincere in (what one says).
• v. (transitive) To result in; to bring about.
• v. (transitive) To be important (to).
• v. (Ireland, Britain regional) To lament.
• adj. (obsolete) Common; general.
• adj. Of a common or low origin, grade, or quality; common; humble.
• adj. Low in quality or degree; inferior; poor; shabby.
• adj. Without dignity of mind; destitute of honour; low-minded; spiritless; base.
• adj. Of little value or account; worthy of little or no regard; contemptible; despicable.
• adj. (chiefly Britain) Ungenerous; stingy, tightfisted; North American English: cheap; formal: niggardly, penurious,…
• adj. Disobliging; pettily offensive or unaccommodating; small.
• adj. Selfish; acting without consideration of others; unkind.
• adj. Causing or intending to cause intentional harm; bearing ill will towards another; cruel; malicious.
• adj. Powerful; fierce; harsh; damaging.
• adj. Accomplished with great skill; deft; hard to compete with.
• adj. (informal, often childish) Difficult, tricky.
• adj. Having the mean (see noun below) as its value.
• adj. (obsolete) Middling; intermediate; moderately good, tolerable.
• n. (now chiefly in the plural) A method or course of action used to achieve some result.
• n. (obsolete, in the singular) An intermediate step or intermediate steps.
• n. Something which is intermediate or in the middle; an intermediate value or range of values; a medium.
• n. (music, now historical) The middle part of three-part polyphonic music; now specifically, the alto part…
• n. (statistics) The average of a set of values, calculated by summing them together and dividing by the number…
• n. (mathematics) Any function of multiple variables that satisfies certain properties and yields a number…
• n. (mathematics) Either of the two numbers in the middle of a conventionally presented proportion, as 2 and…

associate

• adj. Joined with another or others and having equal or nearly equal status.
• adj. Having partial status or privileges.
• adj. Following or accompanying; concomitant.
• adj. (biology, dated) Connected by habit or sympathy.
• n. A person united with another or others in an act, enterprise, or business; a partner.
• n. Somebody with whom one works, coworker, colleague.
• n. A companion; a comrade.
• n. One that habitually accompanies or is associated with another; an attendant circumstance.
• n. A member of an institution or society who is granted only partial status or privileges.
• v. (intransitive) To join in or form a league, union, or association.
• v. (intransitive) To spend time socially; keep company.
• v. (transitive) To join as a partner, ally, or friend.
• v. (transitive) To connect or join together; combine.
• v. (transitive) To connect evidentially, or in the mind or imagination.
• v. (reflexive, in deliberative bodies) To endorse.
• v. (mathematics) To be associative.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To accompany; to be in the company of.

average

• n. (law, marine) Financial loss due to damage to transported goods; compensation for damage or loss.
• n. Customs duty or similar charge payable on transported goods.
• n. Proportional or equitable distribution of financial expense.
• n. (mathematics) The arithmetic mean.
• n. (statistics) Any measure of central tendency, especially any mean, the median, or the mode.
• n. (sports) An indication of a player's ability calculated from his scoring record, etc.
• n. (Britain, in the plural) In the corn trade, the medial price of the several kinds of grain in the principal…
• adj. (not comparable) Constituting or relating to the average.
• adj. Neither very good nor very bad; rated somewhere in the middle of all others in the same category.
• adj. Typical.
• adj. (informal) Not outstanding, not good, banal; bad or poor.
• v. (transitive) To compute the average of, especially the arithmetic mean.
• v. (transitive) Over a period of time or across members of a population, to have or generate a mean value…
• v. (transitive) To divide among a number, according to a given proportion.
• v. (intransitive) To be, generally or on average.
• n. (Britain, law, obsolete) The service that a tenant owed his lord, to be done by the animals of the tenant,…

awful

• adj. Oppressing with fear or horror; appalling, terrible.
• adj. (now rare) Inspiring awe; filling with profound reverence or respect; profoundly impressive.
• adj. Struck or filled with awe.
• adj. (obsolete) Terror-stricken.
• adj. Worshipful; reverential; law-abiding.
• adj. Exceedingly great; usually applied intensively.
• adj. Very bad.
• adv. (colloquial, US, Canada) Very, extremely.

base

• n. Something from which other things extend; a foundation.
• n. The starting point of a logical deduction or thought; basis.
• n. A permanent structure for housing military personnel and material.
• n. The place where decisions for an organization are made; headquarters.
• n. (cooking, painting, pharmacy) A basic but essential component or ingredient.
• n. A substance used as a mordant in dyeing.
• n. (cosmetics) Foundation: a cosmetic cream to make the face appear uniform.
• n. (chemistry) Any of a class of generally water-soluble compounds, having bitter taste, that turn red litmus…
• n. Important areas in games and sports.
• n. (architecture) The lowermost part of a column, between the shaft and the pedestal or pavement.
• n. (biology, biochemistry) A nucleotide's nucleobase in the context of a DNA or RNA biopolymer.
• n. (botany) The end of a leaf, petal or similar organ where it is attached to its support.
• n. (electronics) The name of the controlling terminal of a bipolar transistor (BJT).
• n. (geometry) The lowest side of a in a triangle or other polygon, or the lowest face of a cone, pyramid…
• n. (heraldry) The lowest third of a shield or escutcheon.
• n. (heraldry) The lower part of the field. See escutcheon.
• n. (mathematics) A number raised to the power of an exponent.
• n. (mathematics) Synonym of radix.
• n. (topology) The set of sets from which a topology is generated.
• n. (topology) A topological space, looked at in relation to one of its covering spaces, fibrations, or bundles.
• n. (acrobatics, cheerleading) In hand-to-hand balance, the person who supports the flyer; the person that…
• n. (linguistics) A morpheme (or morphemes) that serves as a basic foundation on which affixes can be attached.
• n. (music) Dated form of bass.
• n. (military, historical) The smallest kind of cannon.
• n. (archaic) The housing of a horse.
• n. (historical, in the plural) A kind of skirt (often of velvet or brocade, but sometimes of mailed armour)…
• n. (obsolete) The lower part of a robe or petticoat.
• n. (obsolete) An apron.
• n. A line in a survey which, being accurately determined in length and position, serves as the origin from…
• v. (transitive) To give as its foundation or starting point; to lay the foundation of.
• v. (transitive) To be located (at a particular place).
• v. (acrobatics, cheerleading) To act as a base; to be the person supporting the flyer.
• adj. (obsolete) Low in height; short.
• adj. Low in place or position.
• adj. (obsolete) Of low value or degree.
• adj. (archaic) Of low social standing or rank; vulgar, common.
• adj. Morally reprehensible, immoral; cowardly.
• adj. (now rare) Inferior; unworthy, of poor quality.
• adj. Designating those metals which are not classed as precious or noble.
• adj. Alloyed with inferior metal; debased.
• adj. (obsolete) Of illegitimate birth; bastard.
• adj. Not classical or correct.
• adj. Obsolete form of bass.
• adj. (law) Not held by honourable service.
• n. (now chiefly US, historical) The game of prisoners' bars.
• acr. Alternative form of BASE.

bastardly

• adj. Having been born out of marriage.
• adj. Of no use or purpose; useless; worthless.

beggarly

• adj. In the manner of a beggar; poverty-stricken; mean; poor; contemptible.
• adj. Fit for a beggar; occasioned by begging.
• adj. (by extension) inadequate or meagre.
• adv. In an indigent, mean, or despicable manner; in the manner of a beggar.

colligate

• v. To tie or bind together.
• v. To formally link or connect together logically; to bring together by colligation; to sum up in a single…

connect

• v. (intransitive, of an object) To join (to another object): to attach, or to be intended to attach or capable…
• v. (intransitive, of two objects) To join: to attach, or to be intended to attach or capable of attaching,…
• v. (transitive, of an object) To join (two other objects), or to join (one object) to (another object): to…
• v. (transitive, of a person) To join (two other objects), or to join (one object) to (another object): to…
• v. To join an electrical or telephone line to a circuit or network.
• v. To associate.
• v. To make a travel connection; to switch from one means of transport to another as part of the same trip.

contemptible

• adj. deserving contempt.

convey

• v. To transport; to carry; to take from one place to another.
• v. To communicate; to make known; to portray.
• v. (law) To transfer legal rights (to).
• v. (obsolete) To manage with privacy; to carry out.
• v. (obsolete) To carry or take away secretly; to steal; to thieve.

designate

• adj. Designated; appointed; chosen.
• v. To mark out and make known; to point out; to name; to indicate; to show; to distinguish by marks or description;…
• v. To call by a distinctive title; to name.
• v. To indicate or set apart for a purpose or duty; -- with to or for; to designate an officer for or to the…

destine

• v. To preordain.
• v. To assign something (especially finance) for a particular use.
• v. To have a particular destination.

entail

• v. (transitive) To imply or require.
• v. (transitive) To settle or fix inalienably on a person or thing, or on a person and his descendants or…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To appoint hereditary possessor.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To cut or carve in an ornamental way.
• n. That which is entailed. Hence.
• n. (obsolete) Delicately carved ornamental work; intaglio.

hateful

• adj. Evoking a feeling of hatred.
• adj. Dislikeable.
• adj. Full of hatred.

ignoble

• adj. Not noble; plebeian; common.
• adj. Not honorable; base.
• adj. Not a true or "noble" falcon; said of certain hawks, such as the goshawk.

impart

• v. To give a part or share.
• v. To communicate the knowledge of; to make known; to show by words or tokens; to tell; to disclose.
• v. To hold a conference or consultation.
• v. To obtain a share of; to partake of.

imply

• v. (transitive, of a proposition) to have as a necessary consequence.
• v. (transitive, of a person) to suggest by logical inference.
• v. (transitive, of a person or proposition) to hint; to insinuate; to suggest tacitly and avoid a direct…
• v. (archaic) to enfold, entangle.

intend

• v. (intransitive, usually followed by the particle "to") To fix the mind upon (something to be accomplished);…
• v. To fix the mind on; attend to; take care of; superintend; regard.
• v. (obsolete) To stretch to extend; distend.
• v. To strain; make tense.
• v. (obsolete) To intensify; strengthen.
• v. To apply with energy.
• v. To bend or turn; direct, as one’s course or journey.
• v. To design mechanically or artistically; fashion; mold.
• v. To pretend; counterfeit; simulate.

link

• n. A connection between places, people, events, things, or ideas.
• n. One element of a chain or other connected series.
• n. Abbreviation of hyperlink.
• n. (computing) The connection between buses or systems.
• n. (mathematics) A space comprising one or more disjoint knots.
• n. (Sussex) a thin wild bank of land splitting two cultivated patches and often linking two hills.
• n. (figuratively) an individual person or element in a system.
• n. Anything doubled and closed like a link of a chain.
• n. A sausage that is not a patty.
• n. (kinematics) Any one of the several elementary pieces of a mechanism, such as the fixed frame, or a rod,…
• n. (engineering) Any intermediate rod or piece for transmitting force or motion, especially a short connecting…
• n. (surveying) The length of one joint of Gunter's chain, being the hundredth part of it, or 7.92 inches,…
• n. (chemistry) A bond of affinity, or a unit of valence between atoms; applied to a unit of chemical force…
• v. (transitive) To connect two or more things.
• v. (intransitive, of a Web page) To contain a hyperlink to another page.
• v. (transitive, Internet) To supply (somebody) with a hyperlink; to direct by means of a link.
• v. (transitive, Internet) To post a hyperlink to.
• v. (transitive) To demonstrate a correlation between two things.
• v. (software compilation) To combine objects generated by a compiler into a single executable.
• n. (obsolete) A torch, used to light dark streets.
• v. (Scotland) To skip or trip along smartly.

meanspirited

• adj. Alternative spelling of mean-spirited.

mingy

• adj. (colloquial) Mean, miserly, stingy.

miserly

• adj. Like a miser; very covetous; stingy; cautious with money.

nasty

• adj. (now chiefly US) Dirty, filthy.
• adj. Contemptible, unpleasant (of a person).
• adj. Objectionable, unpleasant (of a thing); repellent, offensive.
• adj. Indecent or offensive; obscene, lewd.
• adj. Spiteful, unkind.
• adj. (chiefly Britain) Awkward, difficult to navigate; dangerous.
• adj. (chiefly Britain) Grave or dangerous (of an accident, illness etc.).
• adj. (slang, chiefly US) Formidable, terrific; wicked.
• n. (informal) Something nasty.
• n. (euphemistic, preceded by "the") Sexual intercourse.

necessitate

• v. (transitive) To make necessary; to require (something) to be brought about.

norm

• n. (usually definite, the norm) That which is regarded as normal or typical.
• n. A rule that is enforced by members of a community.
• n. (philosophy, computer science) A sentence with non-descriptive meaning, such as a command, permission,…
• n. (chess) A high level of performance in a chess tournament, several of which are required for a player…
• v. (analysis) To endow (a vector space, etc) with a norm.

normal

• adj. According to norms or rules.
• adj. Healthy; not sick or ill.
• adj. (Of a school) teaching teachers how to teach (to certain norms).
• adj. (chemistry) Of, relating to, or being a solution containing one equivalent weight of solute per litre…
• adj. (organic chemistry) Describing a straight chain isomer of an aliphatic hydrocarbon, or an aliphatic compound…
• adj. (physics, of a mode in an oscillating system) In which all parts of an object vibrate at the same frequency…
• adj. (rail transport, of points) in the default position, set for the most frequently used route.
• adj. (geometry) Perpendicular to a tangent line or derivative of a surface in Euclidean space.
• adj. (mathematics) Adhering to or being what is considered natural or regular in a particular field or context.
• adj. (topology, of a topology) In which disjoint closed sets can be separated by disjoint neighborhoods.
• n. (geometry) A line or vector that is perpendicular to another line, surface, or plane.
• n. (slang, countable) A person who is normal, who fits into mainstream society, as opposed to those who live…
• n. (uncountable) The usual state.

poor

• adj. With little or no possessions or money, particularly in relation to contemporaries who do have them.
• adj. Of low quality.
• adj. Used to express pity.
• adj. Deficient in a specified way.
• adj. Inadequate, insufficient.
• adj. Free from self-assertion; not proud or arrogant; meek.
• n. (with "the") Those who have little or no possessions or money, taken as a group.

relate

• v. (transitive) To tell in a descriptive way.
• v. (transitive) To give an association.
• v. (transitive) To make a connection or correlation from one thing to another.
• v. (intransitive) To have a connection.
• v. (intransitive) To interact.
• v. (intransitive) To respond through reaction.
• v. (intransitive, with to) To identify with, understand.
• v. (obsolete) To bring back; to restore.

signify

• v. To give (something) a meaning or an importance.
• v. To show one’s intentions with a sign etc.
• v. To mean; to betoken.

skilled

• adj. Having or showing skill; skilful.
• adj. Requiring special abilities or training.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of skill.

specify

• v. (transitive) To state explicitly, or in detail, or as a condition.
• v. (transitive) To include in a specification.
• v. (transitive) To bring about a specific result.

stingy

• adj. Stinging; able to sting.
• adj. Unwilling to spend, give, or share; ungenerous; mean.
• adj. Small, scant, meager, insufficient.

think

• v. (transitive) To ponder, to go over in one's head.
• v. (intransitive) To communicate to oneself in one's mind, to try to find a solution to a problem.
• v. (intransitive) To conceive of something or someone (usually followed by of; infrequently, by on).
• v. (transitive) To be of the opinion (that).
• v. (transitive) To guess; to reckon.
• v. (transitive) To consider, judge, regard, or look upon (something) as.
• v. To plan; to be considering; to be of a mind (to do something).
• v. To presume; to venture.
• n. (chiefly Britain) An act of thinking; consideration (of something).
• v. (obsolete except in methinks) To seem, to appear.

tight

• adj. Firmly held together; compact; not loose or open.
• adj. (of a space, design or arrangement) Narrow, such that it is difficult for something or someone to pass…
• adj. Well-rehearsed and accurate in execution.
• adj. (slang) Intoxicated; drunk or acting like being drunk.
• adj. (slang) Extraordinarily great or special.
• adj. (slang, British (regional)) Mean; unfair; unkind.
• adj. (obsolete) Not ragged; whole; neat; tidy.
• adj. (obsolete) Handy; adroit; brisk.
• adj. (poker) Of a player, who plays very few hands.
• adj. (poker) Using a strategy which involves playing very few hands.
• adv. Firmly, so as not to come loose easily.
• adv. Soundly.
• v. (obsolete) To tighten.

ungenerous

• adj. Not generous; stingy.

will

• v. (rare, transitive) To wish, desire (something).
• v. (rare, intransitive) To wish or desire (that something happen); to intend (that).
• v. (auxiliary) To habitually do (a given action).
• v. (auxiliary) To choose to (do something), used to express intention but without any temporal connotations…
• v. (auxiliary) Used to express the future tense, sometimes with some implication of volition when used in…
• v. (auxiliary) To be able to, to have the capacity to.
• n. One's independent faculty of choice; the ability to be able to exercise one's choice or intention.
• n. One's intention or decision; someone's orders or commands.
• n. The act of choosing to do something; a person’s conscious intent or volition.
• n. A formal declaration of one's intent concerning the disposal of one's property and holdings after death;…
• n. (archaic) That which is desired; one's wish.
• n. (archaic) Desire, longing. (Now generally merged with later senses.).
• v. (archaic) To wish, desire.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To instruct (that something be done) in one's will.
• v. (transitive) To try to make (something) happen by using one's will (intention).
• v. (transitive) To bequeath (something) to someone in one's will (legal document).

wish

• n. a desire, hope, or longing for something or for something to happen.
• n. an expression of such a desire etc.
• n. the process of expressing or thinking about such a desire etc. (often connected with ideas of magic and…
• n. the thing desired or longed for.
• n. (Sussex) a water meadow.
• v. (transitive) To desire; to want.
• v. (intransitive, followed by for) To hope (for a particular outcome).
• v. (ditransitive) To bestow (a thought or gesture) towards (someone or something).
• v. (intransitive, followed by to and an infinitive) To request or desire to do an activity.
• v. (transitive) To recommend; to seek confidence or favour on behalf of.