mean
77
7.5
- adjective
- /miːn/
- Slang
:
genial
- - But I play a mean recorder.
By the way, Trump Tower serves a mean sandwich.
- By the way, Trump Tower serves a mean sandwich.
- First off, this truck is just plain mean.
Examples
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You pack a mean punch.
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Well, l know how to eat some mean takeout too.
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So I mean, this is really great stuff.
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For Mary, it is no mean achievement to keep clean and wear clean clothes.
Academic text (1998) -
I hear you swim a mean freestyle.
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I can, I can grill a mean tofu burger.
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They make a mean whiskey sour.
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"Bet you didn't know I make a mean meatloaf," he says, straightening up.
Fiction book (1993) -
The Lucky Labrador Brew Pub makes a mean stout and hosts a weekly hackathon.
Blog text (14) -
The chef is known for making a mean chocolate cake that everyone loves.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
Very good or excellent in quality
∞
1.0
Very good and better than most similar things
∞
3.5
Very, showing strong feeling or excellent quality
815
3.3
Very strong and often causing great damage
626
1.9
Very good and impressive, making you feel pleased
407
7.9
Used informally to mean completely or very much
257
3.4
Much better than most others in skill or quality
134
3.0
Better than expected and quite good
111
3.5
Of very high quality and extremely good
110
3.5
Very impressive and beautiful
82
3.4
Very high in quality and among the best in the world
68
2.7
Very good and done with care
49
3.8
Very high quality or done very well
49
3.4
Of the highest quality and very good
38
3.6
Of the highest quality and better than most similar things
27
3.5
Made well so it lasts a long time
16
7.8
Very good and of high quality
14
4.4
Very high quality and among the best
9
3.8
Very high quality and lasts a long time
9
6.2
Of very high quality and among the best in its field
8
7.8
Very good and impressive
8
3.7
Very good quality and better than most others
5
4.4
A person or work that shows very good skill
4
7.9
Very good and impressive
4
9.2
Very good and impressive
3
7.9
Very good and impressive
3
3.7
Of the highest quality, better than others like it
2
2.8
Very impressive and exciting
1
9.9
Very good in quality and performance
1
3.7
Very good in a way that people admire
Very good and of high quality
Very good and the best in quality
Very good and fun to experience
Very good and of the highest quality
A very successful time, for example a year
Antonyms
Idioms
Compounds
- Specialized
20
7.4
A set of JavaScript tools for building web applications using MongoDB, Express, Angular and Node.js
- Specialized
1
3.4
The average of numbers found by adding them and dividing by how many there are
- Specialized
1
3.0
A number you get when you add numbers and divide by how many numbers there are
- Specialized
1
8.5
Average of the farthest and nearest distances of a planet or satellite from the body it orbits
- Specialized
1
7.4
An average of positive numbers found by multiplying them and taking the root for the number of items
- Specialized
1
7.5
An average for rates found by dividing the number of values by the sum of 1 divided by each value
- Specialized
Average time for Earth to turn once so the Sun appears in the same place, about 24 hours
- Specialized
Time kept by an imaginary sun moving at a steady speed used for standard clocks
- Specialized
The average distance of each number from the group's average
- Specialized
An imaginary sun that moves at a steady speed across the sky to measure time
- Specialized
Time kept by an imaginary sun that moves evenly across the sky to set clocks
- Specialized
A special ratio where the small part to the big part equals the big part to the whole
- Specialized
A very high or very low result usually comes before a result closer to the average
- Specialized
An average that gives some numbers more importance using assigned values
- Specialized
An average where some numbers count more than others, for example when scores have different importance
- Specialized
A type of average where you replace the highest and lowest values with closer values before finding the average
How Good
Surface Forms
Etymology
Mean in informal speech meaning 'very good' is a modern slang use. A helpful way to remember it is to think of someone doing something with strong skill or force, so they give a 'mean' performance and impress people.