Meagreness, n.
- 1. Leanness, thinness, spareness.
- 2. Poorness, barrenness, sterility.
- 3. Scantiness, barrenness, smallness.
Meal, n.
- 1. Repast, collation.
- 2. Flour, grain in powder.
Mealy, a. Farinaceous.
Mean, a.
- 1. Middle, medium, average, moderate.
- 2. Intermediate, intervening, coming between.
- 3. Ignoble, plebeian, low, ordinary, common, vulgar, coarse, humble.
- 4. Base, abject, grovelling, vile, contemptible, despicable, servile, beggarly, sneaking, dirty, scurvy, shabby,
sorry, disingenuous, unfair, rascally, pitiful, base-minded, low-minded, dishonorable, spiritless.
- 5. Sordid, penurious, miserly, stingy, niggardly, illiberal, ungenerous, selfish, narrow, mercenary, narrow-
minded, parsimonious.
- 6. Small, little, paltry, insignificant, diminutive, petty, poor, wretched, contemptible, despicable.
Mean, n.
- 1. Medium, mediocrity, moderation, measure, middle state, middle course.
- 2. Average.
- 3. Instrument, method, mode, way, means, agency, instrumentality, measure.