Mean, v. a.
- 1. Intend, signify, contemplate.
- 2. Intend, purpose, design.
- 3. Signify, indicate, imply, denote, purport, import, express.
Mean, v. n. Intend, purpose, design.
Meander, n.
- 1. Labyrinth, maze, winding course, perplexity, intricacy.
- 2. Indirect course.
Meander, v. n. Wind, be tortuous, run in a serpentine course, turn, flow round.
Meandering, a. Winding, serpentine, tortuous, anfractuous, flexuous, meandrian, meandrous.
Meaning, n.
- 1. Intention, intent, purpose, design, aim, object.
- 2. Signification, sense, acceptation, explanation, interpretation, import, purport, significance, force.
Meaningly, ad. Significantly.
Meanly, ad. Dishonorably, unworthily, depreciatingly, disrespectfully.
Meanness, n.
- 1. Humbleness, lowness.
- 2. Smallness, littleness, scantiness, slenderness, lowness, poverty, meagreness, poorness, rudeness.
- 3. Abjectness, vileness, baseness, contemptibleness, despicableness.
- 4. Illiberality, ungenerousness, sordidness, penuriousness, niggardliness.
Means, n. sing. and pl.
- 1. Instrument, method, mode, way.