Mean, n. Middle, medium, average, intermediate point; (pl.) resources, property, revenue; media.

Ant. Extreme, excess, exorbitance, enormity, extravagance; poverty, end, purpose, object.

Mean, v. Purpose, intend, design; signify, import, indicate, denote, express.

Ant. Do, perform, execute; say, state, enunciate, declare.

Mean, a. Ignoble, abject, beggarly, wretched, degraded, degenerate, vulgar, vile, servile, menial, groveling, slavish, dishonorable, disgraceful, shameful, despicable, contemptible, paltry, sordid.

Ant. Noble, kingly, heroic, princely, exalted, generous, eminent, honorable, spirited, liberal, masterly, worthy, bountiful, munificent.

Meaning. Purpose, aim, intention, import, design, object; sense, explanation, significance, interpretation, force, purport, acceptation.

Ant. Statement; proceeding; affidavit, declaration.

Meanness. Stinginess, illiberality, sordidness, vileness, penuriousness, niggardliness, abjectness, baseness; destitution, poverty, lowness, scantiness, smallness, rudeness, selfishness.

Ant. Nobleness, generosity, unselfishness, liberality, large-heartedness.