Meanness

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The state of being inferior in quality, character, or value; commonness.
  • n. The quality or state of being selfish or stingy.
  • n. A spiteful or malicious act.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The condition, or quality, of being mean; want of excellence; poorness; lowness; baseness; sordidness; stinginess.
  • n. A mean act; as, to be guilty of a meanness.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The condition, or quality, of being mean; want of excellence; poorness; lowness; baseness; sordidness; stinginess.
  • n. A mean act.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The state of being mean in grade or quality; want of dignity or distinction; commonness; poorness; rudeness.
  • n. Want of mental elevation or dignity, destitution of spirit or honor; contemptibleness; baseness.
  • n. Sordid illiberality; stinginess; over-selfish economy in small things; niggardliness.
  • n. Synonyms Abjectness, lowness, lowliness, scantiness. slenderness. See abject.
  • n. 2 and Littleness, Meanness, illiberality, sordidness, penuriousness, closeness, miserliness. Littleness applies to more than meanness applies to, as the understanding and the affections; it is the opposite of all largeness of nature, and especially of magnanimity. Meanness is directly selfish, but in a sordid, groveling, pinching fashion; it is the opposite of nobleness and generosity. See penuriousness.
  • n. A mean, vindictive spirit.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. extreme stinginess
  • n. the quality of being deliberately mean
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    malice    malevolency    malevolence   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    poorness    lowness    baseness    sordidness    stinginess   
    Verb Stem
    mean   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    greenness   
    Same Context
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