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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | ungenerous |
| Synonyms: | close, greedy, mercenary, mingy, miserly, niggard, parsimonious, penny-pinching, penurious, rapacious, scrimpy, selfish, stingy, tight, tight-fisted |
| 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: | generous, kind, unselfish |
| Main Entry: | mean |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | poor; of or in inferior circumstances |
| Synonyms: | base, beggarly, common, contemptible, down-at-heel, déclassé, hack, humble, ignoble, ineffectual, inferior, insignificant, limited, low, lowborn, lowly, mediocre, menial, miserable, modest, narrow, obscure, ordinary, paltry, petty, pitiful, plebeian, proletarian, run-down, scruffy, second-class, second-rate, seedy, servile, shabby*, sordid, squalid, tawdry, undistinguished, unwashed, vulgar, wretched |
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | mean |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | average |
| Synonyms: | common, conventional, halfway, intermediate, medial, median, mediocre, medium, middle, middling, normal, popular, standard, traditional |
| 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: | extreme |
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| Concept: | Mean. |
| Category: | 2. COMPARATIVE QUANTITY |
| Synonyms: |
-nouns
mean, medium, intermedium, average, balance, mediocrity, generality; median, mode; golden mean (mid-course) [more]; middle; compromise; middle course, middle state; neutrality.
-verbs
split the difference; take the average; reduce to a mean; strike a balance, pair off.
-adjectives
mean, intermediate; middle; average; neutral; mediocre, middle-class; commonplace (unimportant).
-adverbs
on an average, in the long run; taking one with another, taking all things together, taking it for all in all; communibus annis, in round numbers.
-phrases
medium tenuere beati.
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| Main Entry: | last |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | final; newest |
| Synonyms: | aftermost, antipodal, at the end, bitter end, climactic, closing, concluding, conclusive, crowning, curtains, definitive, determinate, determinative, end, ending, endwise, eventual, extreme, far, far-off, farthest, finishing, furthest, hindmost, lag, latest, least, lowest, meanest, most recent, once and for all, outermost, rearmost, remotest, supreme, swan song, terminal, ulterior, ultimate, utmost, uttermost |
| Notes: | last is the lowest in an ordering or series while latter means referring to the second of two things or persons mentioned |
| Antonyms: | beginning, first, front, initial, introductory, oldest, primary, starting |
| Main Entry: | least |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | slightest, smallest |
| Synonyms: | atomic, bottom, entry-level, feeblest, fewest, finical, first, gutter, infinitesimal, last, lowest, meanest, microcosmic, microscopic, minimal, minimum, minute, minutest, molecular, most trivial, nadir, next to nothing, niggling, piddling, poorest, second, short-end, third, tiniest, trivial, unimportant |
| Notes: | leased means to use or allow someone else to use something for an agreed period of time in exchange for a payment; least is lowest in importance, rank, magnitude, or degree |
| Antonyms: | most |
| Main Entry: | lattermost |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | last |
| Synonyms: | aftermost, antipodal, at the end, bitter end, climactic, closing, concluding, conclusive, crowning, curtains, definitive, determinate, determinative, end, ending, endmost, eventual, extreme, far, far-off, farthest, finishing, furthest, hindermost, hindmost, lag, latest*, least, lowest, meanest, most recent, once and for all, outermost, rearmost, remotest, supreme, swan song, terminal, ulterior, ultimate, utmost, uttermost |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | rearmost |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | last |
| Synonyms: | aftermost, antipodal, at the end, bitter end, climactic, closing, concluding, conclusive, crowning, curtains, definitive, determinate, determinative, end, ending, endmost, eventual, extreme, far, far-off, farthest, finishing, furthest, hindermost, hindmost, lag, latest*, lattermost, least, lowest, meanest, most recent, once and for all, outermost, remotest, supreme, swan song, terminal, ulterior, ultimate, utmost, uttermost |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | appalling |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | horrifying |
| Synonyms: | alarming, astounding, awful, bad, daunting, dire, disheartening, dismaying, dreadful, fearful, formidable, frightening, frightful, ghastly, grim, grody, gross*, harrowing, heavy*, hideous, horrible, horrid, horrific, intimidating, mean, petrifying, scaring, shocking, terrible, terrifying, the end, unnerving |
| Antonyms: | comforting, encouraging, reassuring, satisfying |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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