| meager | (adjective) deficient in amount or quality or extent | Synonyms: meagerly, meagre, scrimpy, stingy |
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| meagerly | (adjective) deficient in amount or quality or extent | Synonyms: meager, meagre, scrimpy, stingy |
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| meagre | (adjective) deficient in amount or quality or extent | Synonyms: meager, meagerly, scrimpy, stingy |
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| mealy | (adjective) containing meal or made of meal | - |
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| (adjective) composed of or covered with particles resembling meal in texture or consistency | Synonyms: coarse-grained, farinaceous, grainy, granular, granulose, gritty |
| mealymouthed | (adjective) hesitant to state facts or opinions simply and directly as from e.g. timidity or hypocrisy | Synonyms: mealy-mouthed |
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| mean | (adjective) of no value or worth | Synonyms: bastardly |
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| (adjective) having or showing an ignoble lack of honor or morality | Synonyms: base, meanspirited |
| (adjective) characterized by malice | Synonyms: hateful |
| (adjective) approximating the statistical norm or average or expected value | Synonyms: average |
| (adjective) marked by poverty befitting a beggar | Synonyms: beggarly |
| (adjective) (used of sums of money) so small in amount as to deserve contempt | Synonyms: beggarly |
| (adjective) (used of persons or behavior) characterized by or indicative of lack of generosity | Synonyms: mingy, miserly, tight |
| (adjective) very good; of the highest quality | Synonyms: excellent, fantabulous, first-class, ripping, splendid |
| meandering | (adjective) of a path e.g. | Synonyms: rambling, wandering, winding |
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| meaning | (adjective) rich in significance or implication | Synonyms: pregnant, significant |
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| meaningful | (adjective) having a meaning or purpose | - |
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| meaningless | (adjective) having no meaning or direction or purpose | Synonyms: nonmeaningful |
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| (adjective) producing no result or effect | Synonyms: futile, ineffectual, otiose, unavailing |
| meanspirited | (adjective) lacking in magnanimity | Synonyms: ungenerous |
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| (adjective) having or showing an ignoble lack of honor or morality | Synonyms: base, mean |
| measly | (adjective) contemptibly small in amount | Synonyms: miserable, paltry |
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| measurable | (adjective) capable of being measured | Synonyms: mensurable |
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| (adjective) of distinguished importance | - |
| measured | (adjective) having notes of fixed rhythmic value | Synonyms: mensurable, mensural |
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| (adjective) carefully thought out in advance | Synonyms: calculated, deliberate |
| (adjective) the rhythmic arrangement of syllables | Synonyms: metric, metrical |
| (adjective) unhurried and with care and dignity | Synonyms: careful, deliberate |
| measureless | (adjective) without limits in extent or size or quantity | Synonyms: illimitable, limitless, unmeasured |
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| meatless | (adjective) lacking meat | - |
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| meaty | (adjective) like or containing meat | - |
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| (adjective) being on topic and prompting thought | Synonyms: substantive |
| mechanic | (adjective) resembling the action of a machine | - |
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| mechanical | (adjective) using (or as if using) mechanisms or tools or devices | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or governed by or in accordance with mechanics | - |
| (adjective) relating to or concerned with machinery or tools | Synonyms: mechanically skillful, technical |
| mechanised | (adjective) equipped with machinery | Synonyms: mechanized |
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| (adjective) using vehicles | Synonyms: mechanized, motorized |
| mechanistic | (adjective) of or relating to the philosophical theory of mechanism | - |
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| (adjective) explained in terms of physical forces | - |
| mechanized | (adjective) equipped with machinery | Synonyms: mechanised |
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| (adjective) using vehicles | Synonyms: mechanised, motorized |
| mecopterous | (adjective) of or relating to mecopterans | - |
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| meddlesome | (adjective) intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner | Synonyms: busy, busybodied, interfering, meddling, officious |
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| meddling | (adjective) intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner | Synonyms: busy, busybodied, interfering, meddlesome, officious |
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| mediaeval | (adjective) relating to or belonging to the Middle Ages | Synonyms: medieval |
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| (adjective) as if belonging to the Middle Ages; old-fashioned and unenlightened | Synonyms: gothic, medieval |
| (adjective) characteristic of the time of chivalry and knighthood in the Middle Ages | Synonyms: chivalric, knightly, medieval |
| medial | (adjective) relating to or situated in or extending toward the middle | Synonyms: median |
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| (adjective) dividing an animal into right and left halves | Synonyms: median |
| median | (adjective) relating to or situated in or extending toward the middle | Synonyms: medial |
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| (adjective) dividing an animal into right and left halves | Synonyms: medial |
| (adjective) relating to or constituting the middle value of an ordered set of values (or the average of the middle two in a set with an even number of values) | Synonyms: average |
| mediate | (adjective) acting through or dependent on an intervening agency | - |
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| (adjective) being neither at the beginning nor at the end in a series | Synonyms: in-between, middle |
| mediated | (adjective) acting or brought about through an intervening agency | - |
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| mediatorial | (adjective) of or relating to a mediator or the duties of a mediator | - |
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| mediatory | (adjective) of or related to or directed toward mediation | - |
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| medical | (adjective) requiring or amenable to treatment by medicine especially as opposed to surgery | - |
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| (adjective) relating to the study or practice of medicine | - |
| (adjective) of or belonging to Aesculapius or the healing art | Synonyms: aesculapian |
| medicative | (adjective) having the properties of medicine | Synonyms: medicinal |
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| medicinal | (adjective) having the properties of medicine | Synonyms: medicative |
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| medicolegal | (adjective) pertaining to legal aspects of the practice of medicine (as malpractice or patient consent for operations or patient information) | - |
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| medieval | (adjective) relating to or belonging to the Middle Ages | Synonyms: mediaeval |
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| (adjective) as if belonging to the Middle Ages; old-fashioned and unenlightened | Synonyms: gothic, mediaeval |
| (adjective) characteristic of the time of chivalry and knighthood in the Middle Ages | Synonyms: chivalric, knightly, mediaeval |
| mediocre | (adjective) poor to middling in quality | - |
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| (adjective) moderate to inferior in quality | Synonyms: second-rate |
| (adjective) lacking exceptional quality or ability | Synonyms: average, fair, middling |
| meditative | (adjective) deeply or seriously thoughtful | Synonyms: brooding, broody, contemplative, musing, pensive, pondering, reflective, ruminative |
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| medium | (adjective) (meat) cooked until there is just a little pink meat inside | - |
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| (adjective) around the middle of a scale of evaluation | Synonyms: average, intermediate |
| medullary | (adjective) of or relating to the medulla of any body part | - |
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| (adjective) containing or consisting of or resembling bone marrow | - |
| (adjective) of or relating to the medulla oblongata | - |
| medullated | (adjective) (of neurons) covered with a layer of myelin | Synonyms: myelinated |
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| medusoid | (adjective) relating to or resembling a medusa | - |
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| meek | (adjective) very docile | Synonyms: tame |
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| (adjective) humble in spirit or manner; suggesting retiring mildness or even cowed submissiveness | Synonyms: mild, modest |
| (adjective) evidencing little spirit or courage; overly submissive or compliant | Synonyms: spiritless |
| meet | (adjective) being precisely fitting and right | Synonyms: fitting |
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| megakaryocytic | (adjective) of or pertaining to large bone marrow cells | - |
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| megalithic | (adjective) of or relating to megaliths or the people who erected megaliths | - |
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| megaloblastic | (adjective) of or relating to megaloblasts | - |
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| megalomaniacal | (adjective) suffering from megalomania | Synonyms: megalomanic |
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| megalomanic | (adjective) suffering from megalomania | Synonyms: megalomaniacal |
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| megascopic | (adjective) visible to the naked eye (especially of rocks and anatomical features) | Synonyms: gross |
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| meiotic | (adjective) of or relating to meiosis | - |
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| melancholic | (adjective) characterized by or causing or expressing sadness | Synonyms: melancholy |
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| melancholy | (adjective) grave or even gloomy in character | Synonyms: somber, sombre |
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| (adjective) characterized by or causing or expressing sadness | Synonyms: melancholic |
| meliorative | (adjective) tending to ameliorate | Synonyms: ameliorating, ameliorative, amelioratory |
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| mellifluous | (adjective) pleasing to the ear | Synonyms: dulcet, honeyed, mellisonant, sweet |
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| mellisonant | (adjective) pleasing to the ear | Synonyms: dulcet, honeyed, mellifluous, sweet |
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| mellow | (adjective) slightly and pleasantly intoxicated from alcohol or a drug (especially marijuana) | Synonyms: high |
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| (adjective) unhurried and relaxed | Synonyms: laid-back |
| (adjective) having a full and pleasing flavor through proper aging | Synonyms: mellowed |
| (adjective) softened through age or experience | Synonyms: mellowed |
| mellowed | (adjective) having a full and pleasing flavor through proper aging | Synonyms: mellow |
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| (adjective) softened through age or experience | Synonyms: mellow |
| melodic | (adjective) containing or constituting or characterized by pleasing melody | Synonyms: melodious, musical |
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| (adjective) of or relating to melody | - |
| melodious | (adjective) containing or constituting or characterized by pleasing melody | Synonyms: melodic, musical |
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| (adjective) having a musical sound; especially a pleasing tune | Synonyms: tuneful |
| melodramatic | (adjective) characteristic of acting or a stage performance; often affected | Synonyms: histrionic |
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| (adjective) having the excitement and emotional appeal of melodrama | - |
| meltable | (adjective) capable of melting | Synonyms: disintegrable |
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| melted | (adjective) changed from a solid to a liquid state | Synonyms: liquid, liquified |
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| melting | (adjective) becoming liquid | Synonyms: liquescent |
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| membered | (adjective) having members; normally used in chemistry in combination with a number | - |
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| memberless | (adjective) of a group or set having no members | - |
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| membranous | (adjective) relating to or made of or similar to a membrane | - |
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| (adjective) characterized by formation of a membrane (or something resembling a membrane) | Synonyms: membrane-forming |
| memorable | (adjective) worth remembering | - |
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| menacing | (adjective) threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments | Synonyms: baleful, forbidding, minacious, minatory, ominous, sinister, threatening |
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| mendacious | (adjective) intentionally untrue | - |
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| (adjective) given to lying | - |
| mendicant | (adjective) practicing beggary | - |
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| menial | (adjective) used of unskilled work (especially domestic work) | Synonyms: humble, lowly |
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| meningeal | (adjective) relating to the meninges | - |
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| menopausal | (adjective) of or relating to the menopause | - |
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| mensal | (adjective) pertaining to or used at the dining table | - |
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| menstrual | (adjective) of or relating to menstruation or the menses | Synonyms: catamenial |
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| mensurable | (adjective) capable of being measured | Synonyms: measurable |
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| (adjective) having notes of fixed rhythmic value | Synonyms: measured, mensural |
| mensural | (adjective) having notes of fixed rhythmic value | Synonyms: measured, mensurable |
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| (adjective) of or relating to measure | - |
| mental | (adjective) involving the mind or an intellectual process | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the mind | - |
| (adjective) of or relating to the chin- or liplike structure in insects and certain mollusks | - |
| (adjective) of or relating to the chin or median part of the lower jaw | Synonyms: genial |
| (adjective) affected by a disorder of the mind | - |
| mentholated | (adjective) containing, or impregnated with, menthol | - |
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| mephistophelean | (adjective) showing the cunning or ingenuity or wickedness typical of a devil | Synonyms: devilish, diabolic, diabolical, mephistophelian |
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| mephistophelian | (adjective) showing the cunning or ingenuity or wickedness typical of a devil | Synonyms: devilish, diabolic, diabolical, mephistophelean |
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| mephitic | (adjective) of noxious stench from atmospheric pollution | Synonyms: miasmic |
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| mercantile | (adjective) of or relating to the economic system of mercantilism | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or characteristic of trade or traders | - |
| (adjective) profit oriented | Synonyms: commercial, mercenary, moneymaking |
| mercenary | (adjective) profit oriented | Synonyms: commercial, mercantile, moneymaking |
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| (adjective) serving for wages in a foreign army | Synonyms: free-lance, freelance |
| (adjective) marked by materialism | Synonyms: materialistic, worldly-minded |
| mercerised | (adjective) of cotton thread that has been treated with sodium hydroxide to shrink it and increase its luster and affinity for dye | Synonyms: mercerized |
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| mercerized | (adjective) of cotton thread that has been treated with sodium hydroxide to shrink it and increase its luster and affinity for dye | Synonyms: mercerised |
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| merchantable | (adjective) fit to be offered for sale | Synonyms: marketable, sellable, vendable, vendible |
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| merciful | (adjective) showing or giving mercy | - |
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| (adjective) (used conventionally of royalty and high nobility) gracious | - |
| merciless | (adjective) having or showing no mercy | Synonyms: unmerciful |
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| mercurial | (adjective) relating to or containing or caused by mercury | - |
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| (adjective) liable to sudden unpredictable change | Synonyms: erratic, fickle, quicksilver |
| mercuric | (adjective) of or containing mercury | Synonyms: mercurous |
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| mercurous | (adjective) of or containing mercury | Synonyms: mercuric |
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| mere | (adjective) apart from anything else; without additions or modifications | Synonyms: bare, simple |
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| (adjective) being nothing more than specified | - |
| meretricious | (adjective) like or relating to a prostitute | - |
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| (adjective) based on pretense; deceptively pleasing | Synonyms: gilded, glossy, specious |
| (adjective) tastelessly showy | Synonyms: brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashy |
| merged | (adjective) formed or united into a whole | Synonyms: incorporate, incorporated, integrated, unified |
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| merging | (adjective) flowing together | Synonyms: confluent |
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| meridian | (adjective) of or happening at noon | - |
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| (adjective) being at the best stage of development | Synonyms: prime |
| meridional | (adjective) of or relating to a meridian | - |
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| (adjective) located in the south or characteristic of southern people or places | - |