n. an average of n numbers computed by adding some function of the numbers and dividing by some function of n

v. destine or designate for a certain purpose; "These flowers were meant for you"

v. have a specified degree of importance; "My ex-husband means nothing to me"; "Happiness means everything"

v. mean or intend to express or convey; "You never understand what I mean!"; "what do his words intend?"

v. have in mind as a purpose; "I mean no harm"; "I only meant to help you"; "She didn't think to harm me"; "We thought to return early that night"

v. intend to refer to; "I'm thinking of good food when I talk about France"; "Yes, I meant you when I complained about people who gossip!"

v. denote or connote; "`maison' means `house' in French"; "An example sentence would show what this word means"

v. have as a logical consequence; "The water shortage means that we have to stop taking long showers"

adj. excellent; "famous for a mean backhand"

adj. (used of sums of money) so small in amount as to deserve contempt

adj. approximating the statistical norm or average or expected value; "the average income in New England is below that of the nation"; "of average height for his age"; "the mean annual rainfall"

adj. marked by poverty befitting a beggar; "a beggarly existence in the slums"; "a mean hut"

adj. characterized by malice; "a hateful thing to do"; "in a mean mood"

adj. having or showing an ignoble lack of honor or morality; "that liberal obedience without which your army would be a base rabble"- Edmund Burke; "taking a mean advantage"; "chok'd with ambition of the meaner sort"- Shakespeare; "something essentially vulgar and meanspirited in politics"

v. have in mind as a purpose; "I mean no harm"; "I only meant to help you"; "She didn't think to harm me"; "We thought to return early that night"

v. denote or connote; "`maison' means `house' in French"; "An example sentence would show what this word means"

v. propose or intend; "I aim to arrive at noon"

v. be a signal for or a symptom of; "These symptoms indicate a serious illness"; "Her behavior points to a severe neurosis"; "The economic indicators signal that the euro is undervalued"

v. have weight; have import, carry weight; "It does not matter much"

v. indicate by signs; "These signs bode bad news"

v. represent, as of a character on stage; "Derek Jacobi was Hamlet"

v. express or state indirectly

v. suggest as a logically necessary consequence; in logic

v. denote or connote; "`maison' means `house' in French"; "An example sentence would show what this word means"

v. mean or intend to express or convey; "You never understand what I mean!"; "what do his words intend?"

v. intend with some possibility of fulfilment; "I hope to have finished this work by tomorrow evening"

v. reach, make, or come to a decision about something; "We finally decided after lengthy deliberations"

v. place limits on (extent or access); "restrict the use of this parking lot"; "limit the time you can spend with your friends"

v. give a definition for the meaning of a word; "Define `sadness'"

v. separate clearly and as if by boundaries

v. design or destine; "She was intended to become the director"

v. place under restrictions; limit access to; "This substance is controlled"

v. suggest the necessity of an intervention; in medicine; "Tetracycline is indicated in such cases"

v. have as a logical consequence; "The water shortage means that we have to stop taking long showers"

v. express or state indirectly

v. have in mind as a purpose; "I mean no harm"; "I only meant to help you"; "She didn't think to harm me"; "We thought to return early that night"

v. mean or intend to express or convey; "You never understand what I mean!"; "what do his words intend?"

v. propose or intend; "I aim to arrive at noon"

v. denote or connote; "`maison' means `house' in French"; "An example sentence would show what this word means"

v. suggest the necessity of an intervention; in medicine; "Tetracycline is indicated in such cases"

v. express or state indirectly

adj. used of unskilled work (especially domestic work)

adj. marked by poverty befitting a beggar; "a beggarly existence in the slums"; "a mean hut"

adj. of the most contemptible kind; "abject cowardice"; "a low stunt to pull"; "a low-down sneak"; "his miserable treatment of his family"; "You miserable skunk!"; "a scummy rabble"; "a scurvy trick"

adj. having or showing an ignoble lack of honor or morality; "that liberal obedience without which your army would be a base rabble"- Edmund Burke; "taking a mean advantage"; "chok'd with ambition of the meaner sort"- Shakespeare; "something essentially vulgar and meanspirited in politics"

adj. low or inferior in station or quality; "a humble cottage"; "a lowly parish priest"; "a modest man of the people"; "small beginnings"

adj. lacking love and generosity; "all pious words and uncharitable deeds"- Charles Reade

adj. deficient in human sensibility; not mentally or morally sensitive; "insensitive to the needs of the patients"

adj. applying to all or most members of a category or group; "the general public"; "general assistance"; "a general rule"; "in general terms"; "comprehensible to the general reader"

adj. lacking special distinction, rank, or status; commonly encountered; "average people"; "the ordinary (or common) man in the street"

adj. exhibiting the qualities or characteristics that identify a group or kind or category; "a typical American girl"; "a typical suburban community"; "the typical car owner drives 10,000 miles a year"; "a painting typical of the Impressionist school"; "a typical romantic poem"; "a typical case of arteritis"

adj. (used of sums of money) so small in amount as to deserve contempt

adj. of the most contemptible kind; "abject cowardice"; "a low stunt to pull"; "a low-down sneak"; "his miserable treatment of his family"; "You miserable skunk!"; "a scummy rabble"; "a scurvy trick"

adj. having or showing an ignoble lack of honor or morality; "that liberal obedience without which your army would be a base rabble"- Edmund Burke; "taking a mean advantage"; "chok'd with ambition of the meaner sort"- Shakespeare; "something essentially vulgar and meanspirited in politics"

adj. marked by strong resentment or cynicism; "an acrimonious dispute"; "bitter about the divorce"

adj. showing malicious ill will and a desire to hurt; motivated by spite; "a despiteful fiend"; "a truly spiteful child"; "a vindictive man will look for occasions for resentment"

adj. having a difficult and contrary disposition; "a cantankerous and venomous-tongued old lady"- Dorothy Sayers

adj. harsh; "sharp criticism"; "a sharp-worded exchange"; "a tart remark"

adj. harsh or corrosive in tone; "an acerbic tone piercing otherwise flowery prose"; "a barrage of acid comments"; "her acrid remarks make her many enemies"; "bitter words"; "blistering criticism"; "caustic jokes about political assassination, talk-show hosts and medical ethics"; "a sulfurous denunciation"; "a vitriolic critique"

adj. expressing or expressive of ridicule that wounds

adj. very irritable; "bristly exchanges between the White House and the press"; "he became prickly and spiteful"; "witty and waspish about his colleagues"

adj. morally bad or wrong; "evil purposes"; "an evil influence"; "evil deeds"

adj. evoking or deserving hatred; "no vice is universally as hateful as ingratitude"- Joseph Priestly

adj. having the nature of or resulting from malice; "malicious gossip"; "took malicious pleasure in...watching me wince"- Rudyard Kipling

adj. causing misery or pain or distress; "it was a sore trial to him"; "the painful process of growing up"

adj. very bad in degree or extent; "a severe worldwide depression"; "the house suffered severe damage"

adj. marked by or arising from malice; "a catty remark"

adj. not friendly; "an unfriendly act of aggression"; "an inimical critic"

adj. marked by deep ill will; deliberately harmful; "poisonous hate"; "venomous criticism"; "vicious gossip"

adj. (of weapons or instruments) causing suffering and pain; "brutal instruments of torture"; "cruel weapons of war"

adj. (of weapons or instruments) causing suffering and pain; "brutal instruments of torture"; "cruel weapons of war"

adj. dangerous to health; characterized by progressive and uncontrolled growth (especially of a tumor)

adj. showing deep-seated resentment: "failure made him malevolent toward those who were successful"; "preserve ... from rancourous envy of the rich"- Aldous Huxley; "a vindictive man will look for occasions for resentment"

adj. (used of sums of money) so small in amount as to deserve contempt

adj. marked by poverty befitting a beggar; "a beggarly existence in the slums"; "a mean hut"

adj. treacherously cowardly; "the unprovoked and dastardly attack by Japan on...December 7th"- F.D. Roosevelt

adj. less than normal in degree or intensity or amount; "low prices"; "the reservoir is low"

adj. touched by rot or decay; "tainted bacon"; "`corrupt' is archaic"

adj. not straight; dishonest or immoral or evasive

adj. morally degraded; "a seedy district"; "the seamy side of life"; "sleazy characters hanging around casinos"; "sleazy storefronts with...dirt on the walls"- Seattle Weekly; "the sordid details of his orgies stank under his very nostrils"- James Joyce; "the squalid atmosphere of intrigue and betrayal"

adj. illegitimate

adj. unethical or dishonest; "dirty police officers"; "a sordid political campaign"

adj. of the most contemptible kind; "abject cowardice"; "a low stunt to pull"; "a low-down sneak"; "his miserable treatment of his family"; "You miserable skunk!"; "a scummy rabble"; "a scurvy trick"

adj. having or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude; "adept in handicrafts"; "an adept juggler"; "an expert job"; "a good mechanic"; "a practiced marksman"; "a proficient engineer"; "a lesser-known but no less skillful composer"; "the effect was achieved by skillful retouching"

adj. expert in skulduggery; "an arch criminal"

adj. used of a player skilled in stealing the ball or robbing a batter of a hit; "a ball-hawking center fielder"

adj. having or revealing supreme mastery or skill; "a consummate artist"; "consummate skill"; "a masterful speaker"; "masterful technique"; "a masterly performance of the sonata"; "a virtuoso performance"

adj. marked by great skill especially in meticulous technique; "a surgeon's delicate touch"

adj. "a master plumber"; "a master thief"

adj. (skilled)

adj. proficient and confident in performance; "promising playwrights...sure-handed enough to turn out top-drawer scripts"

adj. competent in many areas and able to turn with ease from one thing to another; "a versatile writer"

adj. embarrassingly stingy

adj. giving or spending with reluctance; "our cheeseparing administration"; "very close (or near) with his money"; "a penny-pinching miserly old man"

adj. unwilling to part with money

adj. petty or reluctant in giving or spending; "a niggardly tip"

adj. deficient in amount or quality or extent; "meager resources"; "meager fare"

adj. excessively unwilling to spend; "parsimonious thrift relieved by few generous impulses"; "lived in a most penurious manner--denying himself every indulgence"

adj. (psychol) characterized by average intelligence and ability and development

adj. relating to or constituting the middle value of an ordered set of values (or the average of the middle two in a set with an even number of values); "the median value of 17, 20, and 36 is 20"; "the median income for the year was $15,000"

adj. relating to or constituting the most frequent value in a distribution; "the modal age at which American novelists reach their peak is 30"

adj. functioning or occurring in a normal way; lacking abnormalities or deficiencies; "it's the natural thing to happen"; "natural immunity"; "a grandparent's natural affection for a grandchild"

adj. having normal blood pressure

adj. free from psychological disorder; "a well-adjusted personality"

adj. (of housing or residential areas) indicative of poverty; "a slummy part of town"; "slum conditions"

adj. painful or dangerous: "an awful accident"; "a grave wound"

adj. very unpleasant or offensive ; "a grotty little play"

adj. morally unacceptable; "the dishonorable conduct of trusted men"

adj. not befitting a gentleman

adj. pleasant or pleasing or agreeable in nature or appearance; "what a nice fellow you are and we all thought you so nasty"- George Meredith; "nice manners"; "a nice dress"; "a nice face"; "a nice day"; "had a nice time at the party"; "the corn and tomatoes are nice today"