meaner in English

adjective

1

unwilling to give or share things, especially money; not generous.

she felt mean not giving a tip

synonyms: miserly, niggardly, close-fisted, parsimonious, penny-pinching, cheeseparing, Scroogelike, tightfisted, stingy, tight, mingy, money-grubbing, cheap, penurious

2

unkind, spiteful, or unfair.

it was very mean of me

synonyms: unkind, nasty, unpleasant, spiteful, malicious, unfair, cruel, shabby, foul, despicable, contemptible, obnoxious, vile, odious, loathsome, base, low, horrible, horrid, hateful, rotten, lowdown, beastly

3

(especially of a place) poor in quality and appearance; shabby.

her home was mean and small

4

excellent; very skillful or effective.

he's a mean cook

5

(of a quantity) calculated as a mean; average.

by 1989, the mean age at marriage stood at 24.8 for women and 26.9 for men

synonyms: average, median, middle, medial, medium, normal, standard

6

equally far from two extremes.

hope is the mean virtue between despair and presumption

adjective

unkind, nasty, unpleasant, spiteful, malicious, unfair, cruel, shabby, foul, despicable, contemptible, obnoxious, vile, odious, loathsome, base, low, horrible, horrid, hateful, rotten, lowdown, beastly
miserly, niggardly, close-fisted, parsimonious, penny-pinching, cheeseparing, Scroogelike, tightfisted, stingy, tight, mingy, money-grubbing, cheap, penurious
inferior, poor, limited, restricted
lowly, humble, ordinary, low, low-born, modest, common, base, proletarian, plebeian, obscure, ignoble, undistinguished, baseborn
average, median, middle, medial, medium, normal, standard
meanspirited, base
beggarly
mingy, tight, miserly
average
bastardly
hateful

Use "meaner" in a sentence

1. Fairies are meaner than fucking hornets!

2. Even though that pig called me a bum... You're meaner.

3. They are Monie's stories: tougher, funky folk tales for these meaner times.

4. You don't look like no meaner-than-hell, cold-blooded, damn killer.

5. Synonyms for Adroiter include abler, defter, better, handier, meaner, niftier, apter, slicker, tastier and nimbler

6. Henry Lawson wrote "He was meaner than a gold fields Chinaman and sharper than a sewer rat".

7. There's nothing meaner than a junkyard Bogy, but he'll only come at you with direct physical attacks.Final Fantasy VI PlayStation Bestiary entry The Bogy is an enemy in Final Fantasy VI

8. By 1910, A.F. Pollard was convinced that the fact that Amy Robsart's death caused suspicion was "as natural as it was incredible ... But a meaner intelligence than Elizabeth's or even Dudley's would have perceived that murder would make the marriage impossible."