mean, a. contemptible, despicable, low-minded, base, abject, groveling, dishonorable, shabby, scurvy, servile, menial, undignified, unbecoming, disingenuous; obscure, ignoble, plebeian, inglorious, undistinguished, vulgar; penurious, illiberal, sordid, miserly, stingy, mercenary parsimonious, ungenerous; midway, average, moderate, middle, medium, mediocre; intermediate, mediate, intervening; insignificant, paltry, inconsequential, piddling, frivolous, inferior, poor.
mean, n. middle, medium.
meander, v. wind, turn.
meandering, a. winding, tortuous, crooked, serpentine, meandrous.
meaning, n. signification, significance, import, acceptation, intent. Associated Words: lexicology, semasiology.
meaningly, adv. significantly.
meanly, adv. dishonorably, basely, ungenerously.
means, n. property, possessions, wealth, resources, riches, estate; instrument, agency, instrumentality, method, way, facility; expedient, resource, contrivance, resort, device, artifice.
meantime, n. interval, interim, meanwhile.
meantime, adv. meanwhile.
meanwhile, adv. meantime, during the interval.
measles, n. rubeola.
measurable, a. mensurable, computable.
measure, n. gauge, rule; dimensions, capacity, size, extent, degree, limit; quantity, amount; proportion, allotment, share; metre; act, step, means.
measure, v. gauge, mete; appraise, estimate, compute, adjust; allot, mete out, apportion, distribute.
measureless, a. immeasurable.
measurement, n. mensuration; dimensions, size, extent, area, capacity, bulk.
meat, n. flesh (of animals). See flesh.
meat pie. mince pie; pasty.
mechanic, n. mechanician, artisan, artificer, handicraftsman, craftsman.
mechanical, a. automatic, involuntary.
mechanician, n. machinist.
medal, n. medallion.
meddle, v. interfere, interpose, intermeddle, obtrude.
meddlesome, a. officious, intrusive, obtrusive, pragmatical, intermeddling.
meddling, n. interference, intrusion, intermeddling.
mediation, n. intercession.
mediator, n. intercessor. See peacemaker.
mediatorial, a. intercessory, mediatory, propitiatory.
medical, a. medicinal, therapeutical, therapeutic, curative.
medicinal, a. medicative, medical, therapeutic.
medicine, n. materia medica, medicament, remedy, restorative, corrective, specific, physic, antidote, tonic, panacea; nostrum.
mediocre, a. middling, ordinary, medium, commonplace.
mediocrity, n. commonplaceness, indifference, middle state.
meditate, v. contemplate, muse, ponder, cogitate, reflect, think.
meditation, n. contemplation, musing, cogitation, reflection, thought.
meditative, a. thoughtful, contemplative, reflective.