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- pronunciation:
- min
| part of speech: |
adjective |
| inflections: |
meaner, meanest |
| definition 1: |
not nice; nasty or cruel.
The mean wizard turned the children into toads.- synonyms:
- malicious, nasty
- antonyms:
- kind, nice
- similar words:
- cruel, lousy, ornery, ugly, vicious, wicked
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| definition 2: |
low in quality or poor in appearance.
The peasants lived in mean cottages far from the castle.- synonyms:
- base, inferior, poor, shabby
- antonyms:
- grand
- similar words:
- cheap, little, meager, petty, sorry
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| related words: |
awful, bad, beastly, bitter, dirty, grubby, hateful, inferior, insensitive, low, splendid, stingy, tough, wretched |
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