This clue, “Mean”, has been solved many times before. The list below includes answers that have repeatedly shown up in crosswords using the same phrasing or entry style.
Possible Answers:
- AVERAGE
- INTEND
- UNKIND
- BASE
- SIGNIFY
- TIGHTFISTED
- MISERLY
- NOTSONICE
- LOW
- ABJECT
- IMPLY
- CLOSEFISTED
- MEDIUM
- DENOTE
- NASTY
- CRUEL
- STINGY
- SQUALID
- LOWDOWN
- GETAT
Synonyms and Definitions
AVERAGE
- Synonyms: average out, fair, intermediate, median, mediocre, medium, middling, modal, norm, ordinary
INTEND
- Synonyms: designate, destine, signify, specify, stand for, think
UNKIND
- Synonyms: pitiless
BASE
- Synonyms: al-qaida, al-qaeda, alkali, bag, basal, base of operations, baseborn, basis, cornerstone, establish, floor, foot, found, foundation, free-base, fundament, ground, groundwork, home, humble, immoral, infrastructure, lowly, meanspirited, nucleotide, pedestal, qaeda, radical, radix, root, root word, stand, stem, substructure, theme, understructure
SIGNIFY
- Synonyms: intend
TIGHTFISTED
- Synonyms: closefisted, hardfisted
MISERLY
- Synonyms: mingy, tight
LOW
- Synonyms: abject, blue, broken, crushed, depleted, depressed, depression, dispirited, down, down in the mouth, downcast, downhearted, first, first gear, gloomy, grim, humbled, humiliated, low gear, low-down, low-pitched, low-spirited, low-toned, miserable, modest, moo, scummy, scurvy, small
ABJECT
- Synonyms: low, unhopeful
IMPLY
- Synonyms: connote, entail, incriminate, inculpate, involve
- Definition: Convey or articulate in a not straightforward manner.
CLOSEFISTED
- Synonyms: tightfisted
MEDIUM
- Synonyms: average, culture medium, mass medium, metier, sensitive, spiritualist
DENOTE
- Synonyms: announce, refer
NASTY
- Synonyms: awful, cruddy, filthy, foul, smutty
CRUEL
- Synonyms: barbarous, brutal, fell, roughshod, savage, vicious
STINGY
- Synonyms: meager, meagerly, meagre, scrimpy, ungenerous
SQUALID
- Synonyms: flyblown, seamy, seedy, sleazy, sordid