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meanspirited
Overview of adj meanspirited
The adj meanspirited has 2 senses (no senses from tagged texts)
1. ungenerous, meanspirited -- (lacking in magnanimity; "it seems ungenerous to end this review of a splendid work of scholarship on a critical note"- Times Litt. Sup.; "a meanspirited man unwilling to forgive")
2. base, mean, meanspirited -- (having or showing an ignoble lack of honor or morality; "that liberal obedience without which your army would be a base rabble"- Edmund Burke; "taking a mean advantage"; "chok'd with ambition of the meaner sort"- Shakespeare; "something essentially vulgar and meanspirited in politics")
Antonyms of adj meanspirited
2 senses of meanspirited
Sense 1
ungenerous (vs. generous), meanspirited
Sense 2
base, mean, meanspirited
INDIRECT (VIA ignoble) -> noble
Similarity of adj meanspirited
2 senses of meanspirited
Sense 1
ungenerous (vs. generous), meanspirited
Also See> stingy#1, ungenerous#2
Sense 2
base, mean, meanspirited
=> ignoble (vs. noble)
Pertainyms of adj meanspirited
Attributes of adj meanspirited
Domain of adj meanspirited
Domain Terms of adj meanspirited
Familiarity of adj meanspirited
meanspirited used as an adjective is rare (polysemy count =2)
Grep of adj meanspirited
meanspirited
Grep of adv meanspirited
meanspiritedly
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