meaner

English

Adjective

meaner

1. comparative form of mean: more mean
   • Ivanhoe (1952 film)

     Prince John: "Your foe has bloodied you, sir knight. Will you concede defeat? You fight too well to die so mean a death. Will you not throw in your lot with me instead?

     Ivanhoe: "That would be an even meaner death, Your Grace."

Noun

meaner (plural meaners)

1. One who means or intends something.
   • 2006, M.A.K. Halliday, Jonathan Webster, Linguistic Studies of Text and Discourse, page 50:

     By his acts of meaning, and those of other individual meaners, the social reality is created, maintained in good order, and continuously shaped and modified.

Derived terms

• well-meaner

Anagrams

• Menear, enarme, rename