Meaning

(rare) Not mean (all senses)..

Definitions by Sense

1. (rare) Not mean (all senses).
2. (rare) To reverse, cancel, or negate what was intentionally communicated.

Example Sentences

The Age of Innocence is based on an Edith Wharton novel and set in the very unmean streets of upper-crust New York, circa 1870.

But this whole time, all you've been doing is judging me, making not unmean comments about my new friends, about the guys I'm dating, about how much I drink, go out—everything—as if you don't approve.

They are so unmean, so just and so kind.

So the tightrope these unmean men must walk drew taut.

The play works to unmean meaning by a double dislocation. It uses expectation to undermine expectation both of everyday 'reality' and of theatrical genre.

... just as Steinian non-sense derives its power to “unmean” from the rigidly semantic context of most discursive forms

I'd meant everything I ever said to her, and I didn't know how to unmean it.

Word Forms

• more unmean
• most unmean
• unmeans
• unmeaning
• unmeant

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Use unmean when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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