Word Meanings - MEANNESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The condition, or quality, of being mean; want of excellence; poorness; lowness; baseness; sordidness; stinginess. This figure is of a later date, by the meanness of the workmanship. Addison. 2. A mean act; as, to be guilty of meanness.

Additional info about word: MEANNESS

1. The condition, or quality, of being mean; want of excellence; poorness; lowness; baseness; sordidness; stinginess. This figure is of a later date, by the meanness of the workmanship. Addison. 2. A mean act; as, to be guilty of meanness. Goldsmith.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of MEANNESS)

• Dirt
• Foulness
• dung
• filth
• uncleanness
• meanness
• sordidness

Related words: (words related to MEANNESS)

• FOULNESS
  The quality or condition of being foul.
• SORDIDNESS
  The quality or state of being sordid.
• FILTHINESS
  1. The state of being filthy. Let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit. 2 Cor. vii. 1. 2. That which is filthy, or makes filthy; foulness; nastiness; corruption; pollution; impurity. Carry forth the filthiness out of
• FILTHILY
  In a filthy manner; foully.
• FILTH
  1. Foul matter; anything that soils or defiles; dirt; nastiness. 2. Anything that sullies or defiles the moral character; corruption; pollution. To purify the soul from the dross and filth of sensual delights. Tillotson. Filth disease , a disease
• MEANNESS
  1. The condition, or quality, of being mean; want of excellence; poorness; lowness; baseness; sordidness; stinginess. This figure is of a later date, by the meanness of the workmanship. Addison. 2. A mean act; as, to be guilty of meanness.
• FILTHY
  Defiled with filth, whether material or moral; nasty; dirty; polluted; foul; impure; obscene. "In the filthy-mantled pool." Shak. He which is filthy let him be filthy still. Rev. xxii. 11. Syn. -- Nasty; foul; dirty; squalid; unclean; sluttish;