Mean is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for MEAN in dictionary:

VERB:
• to tend, signify
• to moan
• intend to convey or refer to (a particular thing); signify
• (of a word) have (something) as its signification in the same language or its equivalent in another language
• genuinely intend to express (something)
• be of a specified degree of importance to (someone)
• intend (something) to occur or be the case
• be supposed to do something
• design or destine for a particular purpose
• have something as a motive or explanation in saying or doing
• be generally considered to be
• have as a consequence or result
• necessarily or usually entail or involve
• intend to convey or express
• To have in the mind, as a purpose, intention, etc.; to intend; to purpose; to design; as, what do you mean to do ?
• To signify; to indicate; to import; to denote.
• To have a purpose or intention.
• mean or intend to express or convey
• have as a logical consequence
• denote or connote
• have in mind as a purpose
• have a specified degree of importance
• intend to refer to
• destine or designate for a certain purpose
NOUN:
• the value obtained by dividing the sum of several quantities by their number; an average
• a condition, quality, or course of action equally removed from two opposite extremes
• That which is mean, or intermediate, between two extremes of place, time, or number; the middle point or place; middle rate or degree; mediocrity; medium; absence of extremes or excess; moderation; measure.
• A quantity having an intermediate value between several others, from which it is derived, and of which it expresses the resultant value; usually, unless otherwise specified, it is the simple average, formed by adding the quantities together and dividing by their number, which is called an arithmetical mean. A geometrical mean is the square root of the product of the quantities.
• That through which, or by the help of which, an end is attained; something tending to an object desired; intermediate agency or measure; necessary condition or coagent; instrument.
• Hence: Resources; property, revenue, or the like, considered as the condition of easy livelihood, or an instrumentality at command for effecting any purpose; disposable force or substance.
• A part, whether alto or tenor, intermediate between the soprano and base; a middle part.
• Meantime; meanwhile.
• A mediator; a go-between.
• an average of n numbers computed by adding some function of the numbers and dividing by some function of n
• middle point between two extremes
ADJECTIVE:
• stingy; low
• unwilling to give or share things, especially money; not generous
• unkind, spiteful, or unfair
• vicious or aggressive in behaviour
• (especially of a place) poor in quality and appearance; shabby
• of low birth or social class
• very skilful or effective; excellent
• (of a quantity) calculated as a mean; average
• equally far from two extremes
• Occupying a middle position; middle; being about midway between extremes.
• Intermediate in excellence of any kind.
• Average; having an intermediate value between two extremes, or between the several successive values of a variable quantity during one cycle of variation; as, mean distance; mean motion; mean solar day.
• approximating the statistical norm or average or expected value
• characterized by malice
• having or showing an ignoble lack of honor or morality
• marked by poverty befitting a beggar
• (used of persons or behavior) characterized by or indicative of lack of generosity
• (used of sums of money) so small in amount as to deserve contempt
• of no value or worth
• miserly, ungenerous, or petty
• (of a person's mental capacity or understanding) inferior
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• inferior in grade, quality, or character

Words related to MEAN

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Words that contain MEAN

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How to use MEAN in a sentence

• I did not mean to harm him, and do not think I did, but he slipped sideways through the water ever after that.
• But after all that seemed rather a mean thing to do after having treated her so rough before, and in the end he had gone, only one day later than he had promised.
• And yet I took pleasure in seeing again the comforts and some of the luxuries of peace! That gave me an idea of what this sort of place must mean to men from the trenches.
• People wore homemade clothes, what I mean homespun and lowell clothes.
• He is as full of anecdote as heaven is of angels, and I mean to use him in the sweet days of peace, unless some stay-at-home journalist niches him from me in the meantime.
• Vice is constantly binding the rich to the poor, the great to the mean.
• He did not mean to say that Being or Substance had no existence, but he is preparing for the development of his later view, that ideas were capable of relation.
• I mean the total force, the imperishable breath, of the universe.
• I beg leave to explain it to you, because I mean to ask your agency in it.
• It does not seem to mean anything to attempt such a task.
• If Lohengrin did not mean to tell his secret the musical phrase might imply that he had no intention of letting them ask for it.
• I mean to say that strength, as strength, whether of man or woman, is the same.
• Mean time, since we left Deffeins, no such delightful place by way of inn have we yet seen as here at Novi.
• We only mean that for the moment you might let it alone.
• This does not mean, however, that three meals is always the best plan for civilized life in sedentary occupations.
• And in speaking of comfort we mean not only the warmth essential to this but also the ability to use every part of our bodily structure with as little restraint as possible.
• So bound in selfishness am I, so chained, I know it must be glorious to be free But know not what, full-fraught, the word doth mean.
• What will that mean? You will finally acquire so much modesty and delicacy that heart and feeling will be lost.
• That would mean his house burned, and death for himself, he said.
• I do not mean that they manifest any of that pious fear which is backward to commit the safety of the country to the dubious experiment of war.
• The mean heat during the three summer months, December, January, and February, is about 80 degrees at noon.
• Ignorance multiplied by forty or one hundred does not mean wisdom.
• In the mean time I shall behave, with all the princes of Europe, like a finished coquette.
• Then did the mother of Hector beseech him to hold back from what must surely mean death.

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