| mead
|
(noun) made of fermented honey and water |
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| meadow
|
(noun) a piece of land covered or mostly covered with grass; a field where grass or alfalfa are grown to be made into hay |
Synonyms:
hayfield |
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| meadowgrass
|
(noun) any of various grasses that thrive in the presence of abundant moisture |
Synonyms:
meadow grass |
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| meadowlark
|
(noun) North American songbirds having a yellow breast |
Synonyms:
lark |
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| meager
|
(adjective) deficient in amount or quality or extent |
Synonyms:
meagerly,
meagre,
scrimpy,
stingy |
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| meagerly
|
(adverb) to a meager degree or in a meager manner |
Synonyms:
meagrely,
slenderly,
sparingly |
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| (adjective) deficient in amount or quality or extent |
Synonyms:
meager,
meagre,
scrimpy,
stingy |
| meagerness
|
(noun) the quality of being meager |
Synonyms:
meagreness,
poorness,
exiguity,
scantiness,
scantness,
leanness |
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| meagre
|
(adjective) deficient in amount or quality or extent |
Synonyms:
meager,
meagerly,
scrimpy,
stingy |
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| meagrely
|
(adverb) to a meager degree or in a meager manner |
Synonyms:
meagerly,
slenderly,
sparingly |
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| meagreness
|
(noun) the quality of being meager |
Synonyms:
meagerness,
poorness,
exiguity,
scantiness,
scantness,
leanness |
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| meal
|
(noun) the food served and eaten at one time |
Synonyms:
repast |
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| (noun) any of the occasions for eating food that occur by custom or habit at more or less fixed times |
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| (noun) coarsely ground foodstuff; especially seeds of various cereal grasses or pulse |
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| mealberry
|
(noun) evergreen mat-forming shrub of North America and northern Eurasia having small white flowers and red berries; leaves turn red in autumn |
Synonyms:
red bearberry,
hog cranberry,
mountain box,
wild cranberry,
sand berry,
sandberry,
common bearberry,
creashak,
Arctostaphylos uva-ursi,
bear's grape |
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| mealie
|
(noun) an ear of corn |
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| mealtime
|
(noun) the hour at which a meal is habitually or customarily eaten |
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| mealworm
|
(noun) the larva of beetles of the family Tenebrionidae |
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| mealy
|
(adjective) composed of or covered with particles resembling meal in texture or consistency |
Synonyms:
grainy,
granular,
granulose,
gritty,
coarse-grained,
farinaceous |
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| (adjective) containing meal or made of meal |
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| mealybug
|
(noun) scalelike plant-eating insect coated with a powdery waxy secretion; destructive especially of fruit trees |
Synonyms:
mealy bug |
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| 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
|
(verb) mean or intend to express or convey |
Synonyms:
intend |
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| (verb) have as a logical consequence |
Synonyms:
entail,
imply |
| (verb) denote or connote |
Synonyms:
intend,
stand for,
signify |
| (verb) have in mind as a purpose |
Synonyms:
intend,
think |
| (verb) have a specified degree of importance |
- |
| (verb) intend to refer to |
Synonyms:
have in mind,
think of |
| (verb) destine or designate for a certain purpose |
- |
| (noun) an average of n numbers computed by adding some function of the numbers and dividing by some function of n |
Synonyms:
mean value |
| (adjective) approximating the statistical norm or average or expected value |
Synonyms:
average |
| (adjective) characterized by malice |
Synonyms:
hateful |
| (adjective) having or showing an ignoble lack of honor or morality |
Synonyms:
meanspirited,
base |
| (adjective) marked by poverty befitting a beggar |
Synonyms:
beggarly |
| (adjective) (used of persons or behavior) characterized by or indicative of lack of generosity |
Synonyms:
mingy,
miserly,
tight |
| (adjective) (used of sums of money) so small in amount as to deserve contempt |
Synonyms:
beggarly |
| (adjective) of no value or worth |
Synonyms:
bastardly |
| (adjective) very good; of the highest quality |
Synonyms:
ripping,
excellent,
splendid,
fantabulous,
first-class |
| meander
|
(verb) to move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course |
Synonyms:
wander,
weave,
wind,
thread |
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| (noun) a bend or curve, as in a stream or river |
- |
| (noun) an aimless amble on a winding course |
Synonyms:
ramble |
| meandering
|
(adjective) of a path e.g. |
Synonyms:
rambling,
wandering,
winding |
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| meanderingly
|
(adverb) in a meandering manner |
- |
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| meanie
|
(noun) a person of mean disposition |
Synonyms:
unkind person,
meany |
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| meaning
|
(noun) the message that is intended or expressed or signified |
Synonyms:
import,
significance,
signification |
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| (noun) the idea that is intended |
Synonyms:
substance |
| (adjective) rich in significance or implication |
Synonyms:
pregnant,
significant |
| meaningful
|
(adjective) having a meaning or purpose |
- |
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| meaningfully
|
(adverb) in a meaningful manner; so as to be meaningful |
- |
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| meaningfulness
|
(noun) the quality of having great value or significance |
- |
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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:
unavailing,
ineffectual,
otiose,
futile |
| meaninglessness
|
(noun) a message that seems to convey no meaning |
Synonyms:
nonsense,
bunk,
nonsensicality,
hokum |
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| (noun) the quality of having no value or significance |
- |
| meanly
|
(adverb) in a nasty ill-tempered manner |
Synonyms:
nastily |
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| (adverb) in a despicable, ignoble manner |
Synonyms:
scurvily,
basely |
| (adverb) poorly or in an inferior manner |
- |
| (adverb) in a miserly manner |
Synonyms:
humbly |
| meanness
|
(noun) the quality of being deliberately mean |
Synonyms:
beastliness |
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| (noun) extreme stinginess |
Synonyms:
tightness,
niggardliness,
niggardness,
minginess,
parsimoniousness,
parsimony,
closeness,
tightfistedness |
| means
|
(noun) to have the ability to produce a particular effect or achieve an end |
Synonyms:
way,
agency |
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| (noun) considerable capital (wealth or income) |
Synonyms:
substance |
| (noun) an artifact (that is instrumental in accomplishing some end) for accomplishing some end |
Synonyms:
instrumentation,
instrumentality |
| meanspirited
|
(adjective) lacking in magnanimity |
Synonyms:
ungenerous |
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| (adjective) having or showing an ignoble lack of honor or morality |
Synonyms:
mean,
base |
| meanspiritedly
|
(adverb) in a meanspirited manner |
- |
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| meantime
|
(adverb) during the intervening time |
Synonyms:
in the meantime,
meanwhile |
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| (noun) the time between one event, process, or period and another |
Synonyms:
lag,
interim,
meanwhile |
| meanwhile
|
(adverb) at the same time but in another place |
- |
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| (adverb) during the intervening time |
Synonyms:
in the meantime,
meantime |
| (noun) the time between one event, process, or period and another |
Synonyms:
lag,
interim,
meantime |
| meany
|
(noun) a person of mean disposition |
Synonyms:
unkind person,
meanie |
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| mearstone
|
(noun) an old term for a landmark that consisted of a pile of stones surmounted by an upright slab |
Synonyms:
meerestone,
merestone |
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| measles
|
(noun) an acute and highly contagious viral disease marked by distinct red spots followed by a rash; occurs primarily in children |
Synonyms:
rubeola,
morbilli |
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| measly
|
(adjective) contemptibly small in amount |
Synonyms:
miserable,
paltry |
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| measurability
|
(noun) the quality of being measurable |
Synonyms:
quantifiability |
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| measurable
|
(adjective) capable of being measured |
Synonyms:
mensurable |
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| (adjective) of distinguished importance |
- |
| measurably
|
(adverb) to a measurable degree |
- |
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| measure
|
(verb) determine the measurements of something or somebody, take measurements of |
Synonyms:
measure out,
mensurate |
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| (verb) express as a number or measure or quantity |
Synonyms:
quantify |
| (verb) have certain dimensions |
- |
| (verb) evaluate or estimate the nature, quality, ability, extent, or significance of |
Synonyms:
evaluate,
valuate,
value,
appraise,
assess |
| (noun) any maneuver made as part of progress toward a goal |
Synonyms:
step |
| (noun) how much there is or how many there are of something that you can quantify |
Synonyms:
quantity,
amount |
| (noun) a statute in draft before it becomes law |
Synonyms:
bill |
| (noun) the act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule |
Synonyms:
measurement,
measuring,
mensuration |
| (noun) a basis for comparison; a reference point against which other things can be evaluated |
Synonyms:
standard,
criterion,
touchstone |
| (noun) (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse |
Synonyms:
beat,
meter,
metre,
cadence |
| (noun) musical notation for a repeating pattern of musical beats |
Synonyms:
bar |
| (noun) measuring instrument having a sequence of marks at regular intervals; used as a reference in making measurements |
Synonyms:
measuring rod,
measuring stick |
| (noun) a container of some standard capacity that is used to obtain fixed amounts of a substance |
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| measured
|
(adjective) the rhythmic arrangement of syllables |
Synonyms:
metric,
metrical |
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| (adjective) carefully thought out in advance |
Synonyms:
deliberate,
calculated |
| (adjective) unhurried and with care and dignity |
Synonyms:
deliberate,
careful |
| (adjective) having notes of fixed rhythmic value |
Synonyms:
mensurable,
mensural |
| measuredly
|
(adverb) in a deliberate unhurried manner |
Synonyms:
deliberately |
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| measureless
|
(adjective) without limits in extent or size or quantity |
Synonyms:
unmeasured,
illimitable,
limitless |
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| measurement
|
(noun) the act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule |
Synonyms:
measure,
measuring,
mensuration |
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| measurer
|
(noun) a person who makes measurements |
- |
|---|
| measuring
|
(noun) the act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule |
Synonyms:
measure,
measurement,
mensuration |
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| meat
|
(noun) the flesh of animals (including fishes and birds and snails) used as food |
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| (noun) the inner and usually edible part of a seed or grain or nut or fruit stone |
Synonyms:
kernel |
| (noun) the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience |
Synonyms:
heart,
center,
centre,
core,
nitty-gritty,
nub,
inwardness,
heart and soul,
marrow,
pith,
kernel,
gist,
essence,
substance,
sum |
| meatball
|
(noun) ground meat formed into a ball and fried or simmered in broth |
- |
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| meatless
|
(adjective) lacking meat |
- |
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| meatloaf
|
(noun) a baked loaf of ground meat |
Synonyms:
meat loaf |
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| meatman
|
(noun) a retailer of meat |
Synonyms:
butcher |
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| meatpacking
|
(noun) wholesale packaging of meat for future sale (including slaughtering and processing and distribution to retailers) |
Synonyms:
meat packing,
meat-packing business |
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| meatus
|
(noun) a natural body passageway |
- |
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| meaty
|
(adjective) like or containing meat |
- |
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| (adjective) being on topic and prompting thought |
Synonyms:
substantive |