Mean Roget’s Thesaurus §29 N. mean, average, median, mode, balance, medium, # mediocrity,
generality, golden mean, middle,
compromise, middle course, middle state,
neutrality,
mediocrity, least common denominator
V. split the difference, take the average, reduce to a mean, strike a balance, pair off
Adv. on an average, in the long run, taking one with another, taking all things together, taking it for all in all, communibus annis, in round numbers
Phr. medium tenuere beati
N. middle, midst, mediety|,
mean, medium, middle term, center,
mid-course, mezzo termine, juste milieu, halfway house, nave,
navel,
omphalos, nucleus,
nucleolus,
equidistance,
bisection, half distance, equator,
diaphragm,
midriff, intermediate
Adj. middle,
medial,
mesial,
mean,
mid, median, average,
middlemost,
midmost,
mediate, intermediate,
equidistant, central, mediterranean, equatorial,
homocentric N. meaning, signification, significance, sense, expression, import,
purport, force, drift,
tenor, spirit, bearing, coloring, scope, substance,
gist, essence,
marrow, spirit, matter, subject, subject matter, argument, text, sum and substance, general meaning, broad meaning, substantial meaning, colloquial meaning, literal meaning, plain meaning, simple meaning, natural meaning, unstrained meaning, true meaning, honest meaning, prima facie meaning, letter of the law, literally, after acceptation,
synonym,
implication, allusion, suggestion, figure of speech,
acceptation V. mean,
signify, express, import,
purport, convey, imply,
breathe, indicate,
bespeak, bear a sense, tell of, speak of, touch on, point to, allude to, drive at, involve, declare, understand by
Adj. meaning, expressive, suggestive,
allusive,
significant,
significative,
significatory,
pithy, full of meaning, pregnant with meaning,
declaratory, intelligible,
literal,
synonymous,
tantamount, implied,
explicit Adv. to that effect, that is to say
N. intent, intention,
intentionality, purpose, quo animo, project, undertaking, predetermination, design, ambition,
contemplation, mind,
animus, view,
purview, proposal, study, look out, final cause, raison d'etre, cui bono, object, aim, end, "the be all and the end all", drift, tendency,
destination, mark, point,
butt,
goal,
target,
bull's-eye,
quintain, prey,
quarry, game, decision, determination,
resolve, fixed set purpose, settled purpose,
ultimatum, resolution, wish, arriere pensee, motive,
teleology V. intend, purpose, design,
mean, have to, propose to oneself, harbor a design, have in view, have in contemplation, have in one's eye, have in- petto, have an eye to, bid for, labor for, be after, aspire after, endeavor after, be at, aim at, drive at, point at, level at, aspire at, take aim, set before oneself, study to, take upon oneself, take into one's head,
meditate, contemplate of, think of, dream of, talk of,
premeditate, compass,
calculate,
destine,
destinate,
propose, project, have a mind to, desire, pursue
Adj. intended,
intentional,
advised, express,
determinate,
prepense, bound for, intending, minded, bent upon, at stake, on the anvil, on the tapis, in view, in prospect, in the breast of, in petto, teleological adv,
intentionally,
advisedly,
wittingly, knowingly, designedly, purposely, on purpose, by design,
studiously, pointedly, with intent,
deliberately, with one's eyes open, in cold blood, for, with a view, with an eye to, in order to, in order that, to the end that, with the intent that, for the purpose of, with the view of, in contemplation of, on account of, in pursuance of, pursuant to, quo animo, to all intents and purposes
Phr. "the road to hell is paved with good intentions", sublimi feriam sidera vertice
N. unimportance, insignificance, nothingness,
immateriality,
triviality,
levity,
frivolity,
paltriness, poverty, smallness, vanity, matter of indifference, no object, nothing, nothing to signify, nothing worth speaking of, nothing particular, nothing to boast of, nothing to speak of, small matter, no great matter, trifling matter, mere joke, mere nothing, hardly anything, scarcely anything,
nonentity, small beer,
cipher, no great shakes, peu de chose, child's play, kinderspiel,
toy,
plaything,
popgun, paper pellet,
gimcrack,
gewgaw,
bauble,
trinket,
bagatelle, rickshaw,
knickknack, whim-wham,
trifle, "trifles light as air", yankee notions,
trumpery,
trash,
rubbish, stuff, fatras,
frippery, "leather or prunello",
chaff,
drug, froth bubble smoke,
cobweb,
weed, refuse,
scum,
joke,
jest, snap of the fingers,
fudge,
fiddlestick, fiddlestick end, pack of nonsense, mere farce, straw, pin, fig,
button,
rush,
bulrush,
feather, halfpenny,
farthing, brass farthing,
doit,
peppercorn,
jot,
rap, pinch of snuff, old son, cent, mill,
picayune,
pistareen, red cent,
minutiae, details, minor details, small fry, dust in the balance, feather in the scale, drop in the ocean,
flea-bite,
molehill, nine days' wonder, ridiculus mus, flash in the pan, much ado about nothing
V. be unimportant, not matter, go for nothing, matter nothing, signify nothing, matter little, matter little or nothing, not matter a straw, make light of, catch at straws
Adj. unimportant, of little account, of small account, of no account, of little importance, of no importance, immaterial, unessential, nonessential, indifferent, subordinate,
mediocre, passable, fair, respectable,
tolerable,
commonplace, uneventful, mere, common, ordinary, inconsiderable,
so-so, insignificant,
inappreciable, trifling,
trivial, slight, slender, light,
flimsy,
frothy, idle,
puerile,
airy, shallow, weak, powerless,
frivolous, petty,
niggling,
piddling,
peddling,
fribble,
inane,
ridiculous,
farcical,
finical,
finikin,
fiddle-faddle, fingle- fangle,
namby-pamby,
wishy-washy, milk and water, poor,
paltry,
pitiful, contemptible,
sorry,
mean,
meager,
shabby,
miserable,
wretched,
vile,
scrubby,
scrannel,
weedy,
niggardly,
scurvy,
putid,
beggarly, worthless, twopennyhalfpenny,
cheap,
trashy,
catchpenny,
gimcrack,
trumpery,
one-horse, not worth the pains, not worth while, not worth mentioning, not worth speaking of, not worth a thought, not worth a curse, not worth a straw, 1 beneath notice, unworthy of notice, beneath regard, unworthy of regard, beneath consideration, unworthy of consideration, de lana caprina, vain
Adv. slightly, rather, somewhat, pretty well, tolerably, for aught one cares
Int. no matter,
pish,
tush,
tut,
pshaw,
pugh,
pooh,
pooh-pooh,
fudge,
bosh,
humbug,
fiddlestick, fiddlestick end, fiddlededee, never mind, n'importe, what signifies it, what boots it, what of it, what of that, what matter, what's the odds, a fig for' stuff and nonsense, stuff, nonsense, phr, magno conatu magnas nugas, le jeu ne vaut pas la chandelle, it matters not, it does not signify, it is of no consequence, it is of no importance, elephantus non capit murem, tempete dans un verre d'eau
N. hurtfulness,
virulence, evil doer,
bane, plague spot, evil star, ill wind,
hoodoo,
jonah, snake in the grass, skeleton in the closet, amari aliquid, thorn in the side,
malignity,
malevolence, tender mercies, ill-treatment,
annoyance,
molestation,
abuse, oppression, persecution,
outrage, misusage, injury, knockout drops, badness,
peccancy,
abomination, painfulness,
pestilence, guilt,
depravity V. be hurtful, cause evil, produce evil, inflict evil, work evil, do evil,
damnify,
endamage,
hurt,
harm,
injure, pain, wrong,
aggrieve,
oppress,
persecute, trample upon, tread upon, bear hard upon, put upon, overburden, weigh down, weigh heavy on,
victimize, run down,
molest,
maltreat,
abuse, ill-use, ill-treat,
buffet,
bruise,
scratch,
maul,
smite, do violence, do harm, do a mischief,
stab,
pierce,
outrage, do mischief, make mischief, bring into trouble, destroy
Adj. hurtful,
harmful,
scathful,
baneful,
baleful, injurious,
deleterious,
detrimental,
noxious,
pernicious,
mischievous, full of mischief,
mischief-making,
malefic,
malignant,
nocuous,
noisome, prejudicial, disserviceable,
disadvantageous, wide-wasting,
unlucky,
sinister,
obnoxious, untoward, disastrous,
oppressive,
burdensome,
onerous,
malign, corrupting &c. (corrupt ),
virulent,
venomous,
envenomed,
corrosive, poisonous, deadly, destructive,
inauspicious, bad, ill,
arrant, as bad as bad can be,
dreadful,
horrid,
horrible,
dire, rank,
peccant, foul,
fulsome,
rotten, rotten at the core,
vile, base,
villainous,
mean, injured &c. deteriorated, unsatisfactory, exceptionable, indifferent, below par, illcontrived,
ill-conditioned,
wretched,
sad,
grievous,
deplorable,
lamentable,
pitiful,
pitiable,
woeful, evil, wrong,
depraved,
shocking,
reprehensible,
hateful, hateful as a toad,
abominable,
detestable,
execrable,
cursed,
accursed, confounded,
damned,
damnable,
infernal,
diabolic,
unadvisable, unprofitable, incompetent,
irremediable Adv. badly, wrong, ill, to one's cost, where the shoe pinches
Phr. bad is the best, the worst come to the worst, herba mala presto cresco, "wrongs unredressed or insults unavenged"
N. parsimony, parcity|,
parsimoniousness,
stinginess,
stint,
illiberality,
tenacity,
avarice,
greed,
miser,
niggard,
churl, screw,
skinflint,
crib,
codger,
muckworm,
scrimp,
lickpenny,
hunks,
curmudgeon,
harpagon,
harpy,
extortioner,
jew,
usurer,
hessian, pinch fist, pinch penny
V. be parsimonious,
grudge,
begrudge,
stint,
pinch,
gripe, screw, dole out, hold back,
withhold,
starve,
famish, live upon nothing, skin a flint, drive a bargain, drive a hard bargain,
cheapen, beat down, stop one hole in a sieve, have an itching palm,
grasp,
grab Adj. parsimonious,
penurious,
stingy,
miserly,
mean,
shabby,
peddling,
scrubby, penny wise, near,
niggardly, close, fast handed, close handed, strait handed, close fisted, hard fisted, tight fisted,
tight,
sparing,
chary,
grudging,
griping,
illiberal, ungenerous,
churlish,
hidebound,
sordid,
mercenary,
venal,
covetous,
usurious,
avaricious,
greedy,
extortionate,
rapacious Adv. with a sparing hand
Phr. desunt inopioe multa avaritiae omnia, "hoards after hoards his rising raptures fill", "the unsunn'd heaps of miser's treasures", words relating to the sentiment and moral powers
N. disrepute, discredit, ill repute, bad repute, bad name, bad odor, bad favor, ill name, ill odor, ill favor,
disapprobation, ingloriousness,
derogation,
abasement,
debasement,
abjectness,
degradation,
dedecoration, a long farewell to all my greatness,
odium,
obloquy,
opprobrium,
ignominy, dishonor, disgrace, shame,
humiliation,
scandal, baseness,
vileness,
turpitude,
infamy,
tarnish,
taint,
defilement,
pollution,
stain,
blot, spot,
blur,
stigma,
brand, reproach,
imputation,
slur, crying shame, burning shame,
scandalum magnatum, badge of infamy, blot in one's escutcheon, bend sinister, bar sinister, champain, point champain, byword of reproach, ichabod, argumentum ad verecundiam, sense of shame
V. be inglorious, incur disgrace, have a bad name, earn a bad name, put a halter round one's neck, wear a halter round one's neck, disgrace oneself, expose oneself, play second fiddle, lose caste, pale one's ineffectual fire, recede into the shade, fall from one's high estate, keep in the background, be conscious of disgrace, look blue, look foolish, look like a fool, cut a poor figure, cut a sorry figure, laugh on the wrong side of the mouth, make a sorry face, go away with a flea in, one's ear, slink away, cause shame, shame, disgrace, put to shame, dishonor, throw dishonor upon, cast dishonor upon, fling dishonor upon, reflect dishonor upon, be a reproach, to, derogate from,
tarnish,
stain, blot sully,
taint, discredit,
degrade,
debase,
defile,
beggar,
expel, impute shame to,
brand, post,
stigmatize,
vilify,
defame,
slur, cast a slur upon, hold up to shame, send to coventry, tread under foot, trample under foot, show up, drag through the mire, heap dirt upon,
reprehend, bring low, put down,
snub, take down a peg, take down a peg lower, take down a peg or two, obscure,
eclipse,
outshine, take the shine out of, throw into the shade, cast into the shade, overshadow, leave in the background, put in the background, push into a corner, put one's nose out of joint, put out, put out of countenance,
upset, throw off one's center,
discompose,
disconcert, put to the blush
Adj. disgraced, blown upon, "shorn of its beams", shorn of one's glory, overcome,
downtrodden, loaded with shame, in bad repute, out of repute, out of favor, out of fashion, out of countenance, at a discount, under a cloud, under an eclipse, unable to show one's face, in the shade, in the background, out at elbows, down at the elbows, down in the world, inglorious, nameless,
renownless, obscure, unknown to fame, unnoticed, unnoted, unhonored,
unglorified, shameful, disgraceful, discreditable,
disreputable,
despicable, questionable, unbecoming, unworthy,
derogatory,
degrading,
humiliating, infra dignitatem,
dedecorous,
scandalous, infamous, too bad, unmentionable,
ribald,
opprobrious,
errant,
shocking,
outrageous,
notorious,
ignominious,
scrubby,
dirty,
abject,
vile,
beggarly,
pitiful, low,
mean, shabby base
Adv. to one's shame be it spoken
Int. fie, shame, for shame, proh pudor, o tempora, o mores, ough, sic transit gloria mundi
N. commonalty,
democracy, obscurity, low condition, low life, low society, low company,
bourgeoisie, mass of the people, mass of society, brown jones and robinson, lower classes, humbler classes, humbler orders, vulgar herd, common herd, rank and file, hoc genus omne, the many, the general, the crowd, the people, the populace, the multitude, the million, the masses, the mobility, the peasantry, king mob,
proletariat, fruges consumere nati, demos, hoi polloi, great unwashed, man in the street,
mob,
rabble, rabble rout,
chaff,
rout,
horde,
canaille, scum of the people, residuum of the people, dregs of the people, dregs of society, swinish multitude, foex populi,
trash, profanum vulgus, ignobile vulgus,
vermin,
riffraff, ragtag and bobtail, small fry, commoner, one of the people,
democrat,
plebeian, republican,
proletary,
proletaire,
roturier, mr. snooks,
bourgeois, epicier,
philistine,
cockney,
grisette,
demimonde,
peasant,
countryman,
boor,
carle,
churl,
villain,
villein, terrae filius,
serf,
kern,
tyke,
tike,
chuff,
ryot,
fellah,
longshoreman,
swain,
clown, hind,
clod,
clodhopper,
hobnail,
yokel, bog-trotter,
bumpkin,
plowman,
plowboy,
rustic, hayseed*, lunkhead, chaw-bacon*, tiller of the soil, hewers of wood and drawers of water,
groundling,
gaffer,
loon, put,
cub, tony lumpkin,
looby, rube*,
lout,
underling,
gamin, rough, pot-wallopper, slubberdegullion|, vulgar fellow, low fellow,
cad,
curmudgeon,
upstart,
parvenu,
skipjack,
nobody, nobody one knows, hesterni quirites, pessoribus orti, bourgeois gentilhomme, novus homo,
snob,
gent,
mushroom, no one knows who,
adventurer, man of straw,
beggar, gaberlunzie,
muckworm, mudlark, sans culotte,
raff,
tatterdemalion,
caitiff,
ragamuffin,
pariah, outcast of society,
tramp,
vagabond,
bezonian, panhandler*, sundowner, chiffonnier, cinderella, cinderwench,
scrub,
jade,
gossoon,
goth,
vandal,
hottentot, zulu, savage,
barbarian,
yahoo, unlicked cub, rough diamond|, barbarousness,
barbarism, boeotia
V. be ignoble, be nobody
Adj. ignoble, common,
mean, low, base,
vile,
sorry,
scrubby,
beggarly, below par, no great shakes, homely,
homespun, vulgar,
low-minded,
snobbish,
plebeian,
proletarian, of low parentage, of low origin, of low extraction, of mean parentage, of mean origin, of mean extraction,
lowborn,
baseborn,
earthborn,
mushroom,
dunghill, risen from the ranks, unknown to fame, obscure, untitled,
rustic, uncivilized,
loutish,
boorish,
clownish,
churlish,
brutish,
raffish, rude,
unlicked, barbarous,
barbarian,
barbaric,
barbaresque,
cockney, born within sound of bow bells,
underling,
menial,
subaltern Adv. below the salt
Phr. dummodo sit dives barbarus ipse placet
N. servility, slavery,
obsequiousness,
subserviency,
abasement,
prostration, prosternation|,
genuflection,
fawning, tuft- hunting,
timeserving, flunkeyism,
sycophancy,
humility,
sycophant,
parasite,
toad,
toady, toad-eater,
tufthunter,
snob,
flunky, flunkey, yes-man,
lapdog,
spaniel, lickspittle,
smell-feast, graeculus esuriens, hanger on, cavaliere servente, led captain, carpet knight,
timeserver, fortune hunter, vicar of bray, sir-pertinax, max sycophant,
pickthank,
flatterer, doer of dirty work, ame damnee, tool,
reptile, slave,
courtier, beat*, dead beat*, doughface *,
heeler, homme de cour,
sponger, sucker*,
tagtail,
truckler V. cringe, bow,
stoop,
kneel, bend the knee, fall on one's knees, prostrate oneself, worship,
sneak,
crawl,
crouch, cower,
sponge, truckle to,
grovel,
fawn, lick the feet of, kiss the hem of one's garment, kiss one's ass, suck up, pay court to, feed on, fatten on, dance attendance on, pin oneself upon, hang on the sleeve of, avaler les couleuvres, keep time to, fetch and carry, do the dirty work of, go with the stream, worship the rising sun, hold with the hare and run with the hounds
Adj. servile,
obsequious,
supple, supple as a glove,
soapy,
oily,
pliant,
cringing,
abased,
dough-faced,
fawning,
slavish,
groveling,
sniveling,
mealy-mouthed,
beggarly,
sycophantic,
parasitical,
abject,
prostrate, down on ones marrowbones, base,
mean,
sneaking,
crouching Adv. hat in hand, cap in hand
N. improbity,
dishonesty, dishonor, deviation from rectitude, disgrace,
fraud, lying, bad faith, punic faith, mala fides, punica fides,
infidelity,
faithlessness, judas kiss,
betrayal, breach of promise, breach of trust, breach of faith, prodition|,
disloyalty, treason, high treason,
apostasy,
nonobservance,
shabbiness,
villainy,
villany, baseness,
abjection,
debasement,
turpitude, moral turpitude,
laxity,
trimming,
shuffling,
perfidy,
perfidiousness,
treachery,
double dealing, unfairness,
knavery,
roguery,
rascality, foul play,
jobbing,
jobbery,
graft,
bribery,
venality,
nepotism, corruption, job,
shuffle, fishy transaction,
barratry, sharp practice, heads i win tails you lose, mouth honor
V. be dishonest, play false, break one's word, break one's faith, break one's promise,
jilt,
betray,
forswear,
shuffle, live by one's wits, sail near the wind, disgrace oneself, dishonor oneself, demean oneself,
derogate,
stoop,
grovel,
sneak, lose caste, sell oneself, go over to the enemy, seal one's infamy
Adj. dishonest, dishonorable, unconscientious,
unscrupulous,
fraudulent,
knavish, disgraceful, wicked,
false-hearted,
disingenuous, unfair,
one-sided, double, double- hearted,
double-tongued,
double-faced,
timeserving,
crooked,
tortuous,
insidious,
machiavelian, dark,
slippery,
fishy,
perfidious,
treacherous,
perjured, infamous,
arrant, foul, base,
vile,
ignominious,
blackguard, contemptible, unrespectable,
abject,
mean,
shabby, little,
paltry,
dirty,
scurvy,
scabby,
sneaking,
groveling,
scrubby,
rascally,
pettifogging, beneath one,
low-minded,
low-thoughted,
base-minded,
undignified, indign|, unbecoming,
unbeseeming,
unbefitting,
derogatory,
degrading, infra dignitatem, ungentlemanly,
ungentlemanlike, unknightly, unchivalric, unmanly, unhandsome,
recreant, inglorious, corrupt,
venal,
debased,
mongrel, faithless, of bad faith, false, unfaithful,
disloyal, untrustworthy, trustless,
trothless, lost to shame, dead to honor,
barratrous Adv. dishonestly, mala fide, like a thief in the night, by crooked paths
Phr. corruptissima respublica plurimae leges
Int. o tempora, o mores, [Cicero]
N. selfishness,
self-love, self- indulgence,
self-worship,
self-interest,
egotism,
egoism,
amour propre,
&c. (vanity) 880,
nepotism,
worldliness, world wisdom,
illiberality, meanness,
time-pleaser,
time-server, tuft-hunter,
fortune-hunter,
jobber,
worldling,
egotist,
egoist,
monopolist,
nepotist, dog in the manger, charity that begins at home, canis in praesepi, "foes to nobleness," temporizer,
trimmer V. be selfish, please oneself, indulge oneself, coddle oneself, consult one's own wishes, consult one's own pleasure, look after one's own interest, feather one's nest, take care of number one, have an eye to the main chance, know on which side one's bread is buttered, give an inch and take an ell
Adj. selfish,
self-seeking,
self-indulgent,
self-interested, self- centered, wrapped up in self, wrapt up in self, centered in self,
egotistic,
egotistical,
egoistical,
illiberal,
mean, ungenerous,
narrow-minded,
mercenary,
venal,
covetous, unspiritual, earthly,
earthly-minded,
mundane, worldly, worldly- minded, worldly-wise,
timeserving, interested, alieni appetens sui profusus
Adv. ungenerously, to gain some private ends, from interested motives
Phr. apres nous le deluge
