Mean - Crossword Clue

Crossword Clue Last Updated: 22/08/2026

Below are possible answers for the crossword clue Mean.

3 letter answer(s) to mean

AIM
  1. an anticipated outcome that is intended or that guides your planned actions; "
  2. direct (a remark) toward an intended goal; "She wanted to aim a pun"
  3. have an ambitious plan or a lofty goal
  4. intend (something) to move towards a certain goal;
  5. move into a desired direction of discourse; "What are you driving at?"
  6. point or cause to go (blows, weapons, or objects such as photographic equipment) towards;
  7. propose or intend;
  8. specifically design a product, event, or activity for a certain public
  9. the action of directing something at an object;
  10. the direction or path along which something moves or along which it lies
  11. the goal intended to be attained (and which is believed to be attainable);
LOW
  1. a low level or position or degree; "the stock market fell to a new low"
  2. an air mass of lower pressure; often brings precipitation; "a low moved in over night bringing sleet and snow"
  3. British political cartoonist (born in New Zealand) who created the character Colonel Blimp (1891-1963)
  4. filled with melancholy and despondency ; "gloomy at the thought of what he had to face"; "gloomy predictions"; "a gloomy silence"; "took a grim view of the economy"; "the darkening mood"; "lonely and blue in a strange city"; "depressed by the loss of his job"; "a dispirited and resigned expression on her face"; "downcast after his defeat"; "feeling discouraged and downhearted"
  5. in a low position; near the ground; "the branches hung low"
  6. less than normal in degree or intensity or amount; "low prices"; "the reservoir is low"
  7. literal meanings; being at or having a relatively small elevation or upward extension; "low ceilings"; "low clouds"; "low hill

7 letter answer(s) to mean

AVERAGE
  1. (sports) the ratio of successful performances to opportunities
  2. a statistic describing the location of a distribution; "it set the norm for American homes"
  3. achieve or reach on average; "He averaged a C"
  4. amount to or come to an average, without loss or gain; "The number of hours I work per work averages out to 40"
  5. an intermediate scale value regarded as normal or usual; "he is about average in height"; "the snowfall this month is below average"
  6. approximating the statistical norm or average or expected value; "the average income in New England is below that of the nation"; "of average height for his age"; "the mean annual rainfall"
  7. around the middle of a scale of evaluation; "an orange of average size"; "intermediate capacity"; "medium bombers"
  8. compute the average of
  9. lacking exceptional quality or ability; "a novel of average merit"; "only a fair performance of the sonata"; "in fair health"; "the caliber of th
CONNOTE
  1. express or state indirectly
  2. involve as a necessary condition of consequence; as in logic; "solving the problem is predicated on understanding it well"
NOTNICE
SIGNIFY
  1. convey or express a meaning; "These words mean nothing to me!"; "What does his strange behavior signify?"
  2. denote or connote; "`maison' means `house' in French"; "An example sentence would show what this word means"
  3. make known with a word or signal; "He signified his wish to pay the bill for our meal"

4 letter answer(s) to mean

BASE
  2. (electronics) the part of a transistor that separates the emitter from the collector
  3. (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed; "thematic vowels are part of the stem"
  4. (numeration system) the positive integer that is equivalent to one in the next higher counting place;
  5. (used of metals) consisting of or alloyed with inferior metal;
  6. a flat bottom on which something is intended to sit;
  7. a lower limit;
  8. a phosphoric ester of a nucleoside; the basic structural unit of nucleic acids (DNA or RNA)
  9. a place that the runner must touch before scoring;
  10. having or showing an ignoble lack of honor or morality;
  11. illegitimate
  12. installation from which a military force initiates operations;
  13. lowest support of a structure;
  14. of low birth or station (`base' is archaic in this sense);
  15. serving as or forming a base;
  16. the bottom side of a geometric figure from whi
POOR
  1. lacking in specific resources, qualities or substances; "a poor land"; "the area was poor in timber and coal"; "food poor in nutritive value"
  2. characterized by or indicating poverty; "the country had a poor economy"; "they lived in the poor section of town"
  3. deserving or inciting pity; "a hapless victim"; "miserable victims of war"; "the shabby room struck her as extraordinarily pathetic"- Galsworthy; "piteous appeals for help"; "pitiable homeless children"; "a pitiful fate"; "Oh, you poor thing"; "his poor distorted limbs"; "a wretched life"
  4. having little money or few possessions; "deplored the gap between rich and poor countries"; "the proverbial poor artist living in a garret"
  5. not sufficient to meet a need; "an inadequate income"; "a poor salary"; "money is short"; "on short rations"; "food is in short supply"; "short on experience"
  6. people without possessions or wealth (considered as a group); "the urban poor need assistance"
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SHOW
  1. a social event involving a public performance or entertainment; "they wanted to see some of the shows on Broadway"
  2. be or become visible or noticeable; "His good upbringing really shows"; "The dirty side will show"
  3. establish the validity of something, as by an example, explanation or experiment; "The experiment demonstrated the instability of the compound"; "The mathematician showed the validity of the conjecture"
  4. finish third or better in a horse or dog race; "he bet $2 on number six to show"
  5. give an exhibition of to an interested audience; "She shows her dogs frequently"; "We will demo the new software in Washington"
  6. give evidence of, as of records; "The diary shows his distress that evening"
  7. give expression to; "She showed her disappointment"
  8. indicate a certain reading; of gauges and instruments; "The thermometer showed thirteen degrees below zero"; "The gauge read `empty'"
  9. indicate a place, direction, pe

6 letter answer(s) to mean

DENOTE
  1. be a sign or indication of; "Her smile denoted that she agreed"
  2. have as a meaning; "`multi-' denotes `many' "
  3. make known; make an announcement; "She denoted her feelings clearly"
INTEND
  1. denote or connote; "`maison' means `house' in French"; "An example sentence would show what this word means"
  2. design or destine; "She was intended to become the director"
  3. have in mind as a purpose; "I mean no harm"; "I only meant to help you"; "She didn't think to harm me"; "We thought to return early that night"
  4. mean or intend to express or convey; "You never understand what I mean!"; "what do his words intend?"
MEAGER
  1. deficient in amount or quality or extent; "meager resources"; "meager fare"
  2. poor quality or small amount
ORNERY
  1. having a difficult and contrary disposition; "a cantankerous and venomous-tongued old lady"- Dorothy Sayers
STINGY
  1. deficient in amount or quality or extent; "meager resources"; "meager fare"
  2. mean
  3. unwilling to spend; "she practices economy without being stingy"; "an ungenerous response to the appeal for funds"
VULGAR
  1. being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language; "common parlance"; "a vernacular term"; "vernacular speakers"; "the vulgar tongue of the masses"; "the technical and vulgar names for an animal species"
  2. coarse
  3. conspicuously and tastelessly indecent; "coarse language"; "a crude joke"; "crude behavior"; "an earthy sense of humor"; "a revoltingly gross expletive"; "a vulgar gesture"; "full of language so vulgar it should have been edited"
  4. lacking refinement or cultivation or taste; "he had coarse manners but a first-rate mind"; "behavior that branded him as common"; "an untutored and uncouth human being"; "an uncouth soldier--a real tough guy"; "appealing to the vulgar taste for violence"; "the vulgar display of the newly rich"
  5. of or associated with the great masses of people; "the common people in those days suffered greatly"; "behavior that branded him as common"; "his square plebeian nose"; "a vulgar and objectionable person"; "the un

5 letter answer(s) to mean

EQUAL
  1. a person who is of equal standing with another in a group
  2. be equal to in quality or ability; "Nothing can rival cotton for durability"; "Your performance doesn't even touch that of your colleagues"; "Her persistence and ambition only matches that of her parents"
  3. be identical or equivalent to; "One dollar equals 1,000 rubles these days!"
  4. having the requisite qualities or resources to meet a task;
  5. having the same quantity, value, or measure as another; "on equal terms"; "all men are equal before the law"
  6. make equal, uniform, corresponding, or matching; "let's equalize the duties among all employees in this office"; "The company matched the discount policy of its competitors"
NASTY
  1. characterized by obscenity;
  2. disgustingly dirty; filled or smeared with offensive matter;
  3. exasperatingly difficult to handle or circumvent;
  4. offensive or even (of persons) malicious;

11 letter answer(s) to mean

SMALLMINDED
  1. petty

Frequently asked questions about ‘Mean’

What's the best solution for Mean?

The most likely answer for the crossword clue Mean is AIM. Other possible answers include AVERAGE, BASE, CONNOTE, DENOTE, EQUAL, INTEND, LOW, MEAGER, NASTY, NOTNICE, ORNERY, POOR, SHOW, SIGNIFY, SMALLMINDED, STINGY, VULGAR.

How many solutions are there for Mean?

We have found 18 possible answers for the crossword clue Mean.

Which crosswords feature clues like Mean?

Clues like Mean often appear in daily crosswords from publications such as The Guardian Cryptic, Daily Mail Cryptic, The i Paper, The Sunday Times, Financial Times Daily, among others.

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