meaner

ADJECTIVE

ungenerous

Synonyms

STRONGEST

greedy selfish

STRONG

close mercenary penny-pinching

WEAK

mingy miserly parsimonious penurious rapacious scrimpy stingy tight tight-fisted

Antonyms

STRONG

generous

WEAK

compassionate extreme kind nice noble polite sympathetic unselfish

ADJECTIVE

hostile, rude

Synonyms

STRONGEST

callous dangerous dirty evil hard malicious nasty rough ugly vicious vile

STRONG

down malign sinking sour touch

WEAK

bad-tempered cantankerous churlish contemptible despicable difficult disagreeable dishonorable formidable hard-nosed ignoble ill-tempered infamous knavish liverish lousy low-down and dirty perfidious pesky rotten rugged scurrilous shameless snide the lowest treacherous troublesome unfriendly unpleasant unscrupulous vexatious

Antonyms

STRONGEST

agreeable clean decent friendly gentle good kind mild moral nice pleasant pleasing safe sensitive sympathetic upright

STRONG

cheerful happy

WEAK

compassionate extreme generous noble polite unselfish

ADJECTIVE

poor; of or in inferior circumstances

Synonyms

STRONGEST

humble miserable petty vulgar

STRONG

base common hack inferior limited low menial narrow obscure ordinary plebeian proletarian

WEAK

beggarly contemptible down-at-heel déclassé ignoble ineffectual insignificant lowborn lowly mediocre modest paltry pitiful run-down scruffy second-class second-rate seedy servile shabby sordid squalid tawdry undistinguished unwashed wretched

Antonyms

STRONGEST

rich

STRONG

abnormal aristocratic elevated extraordinary high honest moral noble superior uncommon unrestricted

WEAK

compassionate extreme generous kind nice polite sympathetic unselfish

Example Sentences

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There is no single, definitive “stream of consciousness,” because there is no central Headquarters, no Cartesian Theater where “it all comes together” for the perusal of a Central Meaner.

From Salon • Apr. 19, 2014

And imagine if they teamed up as running mates: Mean and Meaner.

From Salon • Jan. 17, 2014

Their gym teacher, Mr. Meaner, might add that they were in need of a serious attitude adjustment.

From Slate • Sep. 7, 2012

But that would be onely in the lesse important Arguments, and the Meaner Sort of Bookes: else distilled Bookes are like Common distilled Waters, Flashy Things.

From On The Art of Reading by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

Meaner and more limited indeed than thy present and former affluence; such as I, of my own motion, would never reduce thee to; such as I can object to only on thy own account.

From Jane Talbot by Brown, Charles Brockden