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1. Have the intention to express or convey; have a particular sense or meaning
   "You never understand what I mean!";
   - intend
    
2. Have as a logical consequence
   "The water shortage means that we have to stop taking long showers";
   - entail, imply
    
3. Denote or connote
   "'maison' means 'house' in French"; "An example sentence would show what this word means";
   - intend, signify, stand for
    
4. Have in mind as a purpose
   "I mean no harm"; "I only meant to help you";
   - intend, think
    
5. Have a specified degree of importance
   "My ex-husband means nothing to me"; "Happiness means everything"
    
6. Intend to refer to
   "Yes, I meant you when I complained about people who gossip!";
   - think of, have in mind
    
7. Destine or designate for a certain purpose
   "These flowers were meant for you"

1. (statistics) approximating the statistical norm, average or expected value
   "the mean annual rainfall";
   - average
    
2. Characterized by malice
   "in a mean mood";
   - hateful
    
3. Having or showing an ignoble lack of honour or morality
   "taking a mean advantage"; "chok'd with ambition of the meaner sort";
   - base, meanspirited
    
4. Excellent
   "famous for a mean backhand"
    
5. Marked by poverty befitting a beggar
   "a mean hut";
   - beggarly
    
6. (used of persons or behaviour) characterized by or indicative of lack of generosity
   "a mean person";
   - mingy, miserly, tight
    
7. (used of sums of money) so small in amount as to deserve contempt
   - beggarly
    
8. Of no value or worth
   "I was caught in the mean traffic";
   - bastardly

1. (statistics) an average of n numbers computed by adding some function of the numbers and dividing by some function of n
   - mean value

Sounds like: mealy, meamean, mien, m

Derived forms: meanest, meaning, meant, meaner

See also: awful, contemptible, ignoble, nasty, normal, poor, skilled, stingy, ungenerous

Type of: associate, average, colligate, connect, convey, designate, destine, intend, link, link up, necessitate, norm, relate, specify, tie in

Encyclopedia: Mean