Nearby Words
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hostile, rude |
| Synonyms: | bad-tempered, callous, cantankerous, churlish, contemptible, dangerous, despicable, difficult, dirty*, disagreeable, dishonorable, down*, evil, formidable, hard, hard-nosed, ignoble, ill-tempered, infamous, knavish, liverish, lousy*, low-down and dirty, malicious, malign, nasty, perfidious, pesky, rotten, rough, rugged, scurrilous, shameless, sinking, snide, sour, the lowest, touch, treacherous, troublesome, ugly, unfriendly, unpleasant, unscrupulous, vexatious, vicious, vile |
| Notes: | the median is the halfway point, dividing a series of numbers in half - while a mean is the average of the sum of the series |
| Antonyms: | compassionate, kind, nice, noble, polite, sympathetic |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | menial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | lowly, low-status |
| Synonyms: | abject, base, baseborn, boring, common, degrading, demeaning, dull, fawning, grovelling, humble, humdrum, ignoble, ignominious, low, mean, obeisant, obsequious, routine, servile, slavish, sorry, subservient, sycophantic, unskilled, vile |
| Antonyms: | elevated, skilled, superior, talented |
| Main Entry: | miserly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | greedy, stingy |
| Synonyms: | abject, avaricious, beggarly, cheapskate, churlish, close, close-fisted, covetous, grasping, ignoble, illiberal, mean, parsimonious, penny-pinching, penurious, skinflint, sordid, tightfisted, ungenerous |
| Antonyms: | generous, giving, liberal |
| Main Entry: | ornery |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | mean |
| Synonyms: | cantankerous, contemptible, crabby, cranky, crusty, difficult, disagreeable, grouchy, grumpy*, hard-nosed, ignoble, ill-tempered, irritable, nasty, obstinate, quarrelsome, rotten, sour, surly, testy, unfriendly, vicious |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | outrageous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very bad |
| Synonyms: | abominable, atrocious, barbaric, beastly, brazen, contemptible, contumelious, corrupt, criminal, debasing, debauching, degenerate, depraving, disgraceful, disgracing, egregious, flagitious, flagrant, gross, heinous, horrendous, horrible, ignoble, infamous, inhuman, iniquitous, malevolent, monstrous, nefarious, notorious, odious, opprobrious, scandalous, scurrilous, shameless, shaming, shocking, sinful, unbearable, ungodly, unspeakable, villainous, violent, wanton, wicked |
| Antonyms: | delightful, good, magnificent, pleasing, wonderful |
| Main Entry: | plebeian |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | base, lower-class |
| Synonyms: | banal, coarse, common, conventional, humble, ignoble, low, lowborn, lowly, mean, ordinary, pedestrian, popular, proletarian, traditional, uncultivated, unrefined, unsophisticated, unwashed, vulgar, working-class |
| Antonyms: | aristocratic, noble, rich, upper-class, wealthy |
| Main Entry: | reprehensible |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very bad; shameful |
| Synonyms: | amiss, blamable, blameworthy, censurable, condemnable, culpable, delinquent, demeritorious, discreditable, disgraceful, errant, erring, guilty, ignoble, objectionable, opprobrious, remiss, sinful, unholy, unworthy, wicked |
| Antonyms: | creditable, good, kind, respectable |
| Main Entry: | servile |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | grovelling, subservient |
| Synonyms: | abject, base, beggarly, bootlicking, craven, cringing, despicable, eating crow, eating humble pie, fawning, humble, ignoble, low, mean, obedient, obeisant, obsequious, passive, slavish, submissive, sycophantic, toadying, unctuous, unresisting |
| Antonyms: | aggressive, dominant |
| Main Entry: | shabby |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | despicable |
| Synonyms: | beggarly, cheap, contemptible, despisable, dirty, disgraceful, dishonorable, disreputable, ignoble, ignominious, inconsiderate, inglorious, low, low-down, mean, mercenary, miserly, rotten, scummy, selfish, shady, shameful, shoddy, sordid, sorry, stingy, thoughtless, unkind, unworthy |
| Antonyms: | honorable, respectable |
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