Thesaurus / meant
other words for meant
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- determine
- imply
- indicate
- involve
- portend
- promise
- represent
- say
- spell
- suggest
- adumbrate
- allude
- argue
- attest
- augur
- betoken
- connote
- denote
- designate
- express
- foreshadow
- foretell
- herald
- import
- intimate
- name
- presage
- purport
- symbolize
- add up
- allude to
- drive at
- hint at
- point to
- speak of
- stand for
- tell the meaning of
- touch on
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This wasn't at all what he meant to say, and it sounded very ridiculous; but somehow the words wouldn't come straight.
DAVY AND THE GOBLINCHARLES E. CARRYL
You never cared—you were too proud to care; and when I spoke to you about my fault, you did n't even know what I meant.
CONFIDENCEHENRY JAMES
He could not tell what I meant by secrets of state, where an enemy or some rival nation were not in the case.
GULLIVER'S TRAVELSJONATHAN SWIFT
That woman meant mischief, or she would never have dared to suggest that a British officer should throw in his lot with hers.
THE RED YEARLOUIS TRACY
But, without telling me what she meant to do, mother took it all to the Casino—and—it followed the rest.
ROSEMARY IN SEARCH OF A FATHERC. N. WILLIAMSON
Malcolm had selected it as a training-ground that evening, because he meant to weary and subdue his too highly spirited charger.
THE RED YEARLOUIS TRACY
Lady Maude sat alone in her room; the white robes upon her, the orthodox veil, meant to shade her fair face thrown back from it.
ELSTER'S FOLLYMRS. HENRY WOOD
Their gunnery won't run to it—was never meant to run to it—and with five going aeroplanes we can't do the spotting.
GALLIPOLI DIARY, VOLUME IIAN HAMILTON
It was found afterwards that the rebels meant to fight the two British forces in detail before they could effect a junction.
THE RED YEARLOUIS TRACY
What she meant neither the Reverend John Dodd, or any other male person, could ever truly know.
THE PIT TOWN CORONET, VOLUME I (OF 3)CHARLES JAMES WILLS
WORDS RELATED TO MEANT
- at hand
- brewing
- certain
- closed
- coming
- compelled
- compulsory
- condemned
- designed
- directed
- doomed
- foreordained
- forthcoming
- hanging over
- impending
- in prospect
- in store
- in the cards
- in the wind
- ineluctable
- inescapable
- inevitable
- inexorable
- instant
- intended
- looming
- meant
- menacing
- near
- ordained
- overhanging
- predesigned
- predestined
- predetermined
- que sera sera
- sealed
- settled
- stated
- that is to be
- that will be
- threatening
- to come
- unavoidable
- way the ball bounces
- alluded to
- allusive
- constructive
- figured
- foreshadowed
- hidden
- implicit
- indicated
- indicative
- indirect
- inferential
- inferred
- inherent
- insinuated
- intended
- involved
- latent
- lurking
- meant
- occult
- parallel
- perceptible
- potential
- significative
- signified
- suggested
- tacit
- tacitly assumed
- undeclared
- understood
- unexpressed
- unsaid
- unspoken
- unuttered
- wordless
- aboveboard
- actual
- artless
- bona fide
- candid
- dead-level
- dear
- devout
- earnest
- faithful
- forthright
- frank
- genuine
- guileless
- heartfelt
- honest to God
- like it is
- meant
- natural
- no fooling
- no-nonsense
- on the level
- on the line
- on up and up
- open
- outspoken
- plain
- pretensionless
- real
- regular
- righteous
- saintly
- serious
- square
- sure enough
- true
- true-blue
- trustworthy
- twenty-four carat
- unaffected
- undesigning
- undissembled
- unfeigned
- unpretentious
- up-front
- wholehearted
- aboveboard
- actual
- artless
- bona fide
- candid
- dead-level
- dear
- devout
- earnest
- faithful
- forthright
- frank
- genuine
- guileless
- heartfelt
- honest to God
- like it is
- meant
- natural
- no fooling
- no-nonsense
- on the level
- on the line
- on up and up
- open
- outspoken
- plain
- pretensionless
- real
- regular
- righteous
- saintly
- serious
- square
- sure enough
- true
- true-blue
- trustworthy
- twenty-four carat
- unaffected
- undesigning
- undissembled
- unfeigned
- unpretentious
- up-front
- wholehearted
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.