| 单词 | meanness |
| 释义 | meanmean2 ●●● S3 adjective 1NOT NICE not nice and making someone feel upset: There’s no reason to be mean. That was a mean trick.mean to Mom, Ben is being mean to me. She has a mean streak (=a tendency to be mean). Clayton doesn’t have a mean bone in his body (=he’s not mean at all).THESAURUSunkind – unkind means the same thing as mean but it sounds more formal: It was unkind to tell her that she looked fat.cruel – very mean and deliberately making someone suffer or feel unhappy: Girls can be very cruel to each other.thoughtless – not thinking about the needs and feelings of other people: It’s your sister’s birthday, and you didn’t even call her? How can you be so thoughtless!nasty – mean, often deliberately and for no reason: Their neighbors were really nasty.hurtful – mean, and said or done especially because you feel something is unfair, you are jealous, etc.: He said some hurtful things that he later regretted.spiteful – mean, and done or said deliberately because you are angry or jealous: Jen’s remark upset Chris, so he said some spiteful things to her.abusive – using cruel words or physical violence: Hannah had an abusive father.vicious – extremely cruel and deliberately trying to upset someone: There is a vicious rumor going around that she is pregnant, but she’s not.malicious formal – showing a desire to harm, upset, or cause problems for someone. Used especially about things people say or write: The girls started spreading malicious gossip as a way of getting back at her.vindictive – mean and unfair especially because you want to harm someone who has harmed you: She became bitter and vindictive after her husband left her, and she refused to let him see the children.2no mean feat/trick/achievement etc. something that is very difficult to do so that someone who does it deserves to be admired: Charlie found a notepad, no mean feat given the state of his desk.3no mean performer/player etc. someone who is very good at doing something: The competition was judged by William Styron, no mean novelist himself.4a mean something informal used to say that something is very good or someone is very skillful at doing something: Stritch plays a mean piano.5AVERAGE [only before noun] math average: The mean length of stay in the hospital is 11 days.6POOR [only before noun] literary poor or looking poor: His photos captured forever the mean streets of New York.[Origin: (1-4, 6) Old English gemæne]—meanly adverb—meanness noun [uncountable] |
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