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  1. Fancy word for mean Try: Vitriolic. The word vitriol originally referred to sulfates. It evolved over time but kept the “corrosive” and “destructive” connotations from its association with sulfuric acid. Now, it’s used to describe a nasty, scathing comment or action. Charlie wrote a vitriolic letter to the person who knocked down his mailbox.
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    mean
    [mēn]
    verb
    mean (verb) · means (third person present) · meant (past tense) · meant (past participle) · meaning (present participle)
    1. intend to convey, indicate, or refer to (a particular thing or notion); signify:
      "I don't know what you mean" · "he was asked to clarify what his remarks meant" · "I meant you, not Jones"
      • (of a word) have (something) as its signification in the same language or its equivalent in another language:
        "its name means “painted rock” in Cherokee"
      • genuinely intend to convey or express (something):
        "when she said that before, she meant it"
      • (mean something to)
        be of some specified importance to (someone), especially as a source of benefit or object of affection:
        "animals have always meant more to him than people"
    2. intend (something) to occur or be the case:
      "they mean no harm" · "it was meant to be a secret"
      • (be meant to do something)
        be supposed or intended to do something:
        "we were meant to go over yesterday"
      • (be meant for)
        design or destine for a particular purpose:
        "the jacket was meant for a much larger person"
      • (mean something by)
        have as a motive or excuse in explanation:
        "what do you mean by leaving me out here in the cold?"
        Similar:
        have importance
        have significance
        be important
        be significant
        have an input on
    3. have as a consequence or result:
      "the proposals are likely to mean another hundred closures" · "heavy rain meant that the ground was waterlogged"
      • necessarily or usually entail or involve:
        "coal stoves mean a lot of smoke"
    Origin
    Old English mænan, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch meenen and German meinen, from an Indo-European root shared by mind.
    mean
    [mēn]
    adjective
    mean (adjective) · meaner (comparative adjective) · meanest (superlative adjective)
    Origin
    Old English mæne, shortening of gemǣne, of Germanic origin, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin communis ‘common’. The original sense was ‘common to two or more people’, later ‘inferior in rank’, leading to mean and a sense ‘ignoble, small-minded’, from which mean and mean (which became common in the 19th century) arose.
    mean
    [mēn]
    noun
    mean (noun) · means (plural noun)
    1. the value obtained by dividing the sum of several quantities by their number; an average. See also arithmetic mean, geometric mean.
      "acid output was calculated by taking the mean of all three samples"
    2. a condition, quality, or course of action equally removed from two opposite (usually unsatisfactory) extremes:
      "the mean between two extremes"
    adjective
    mean (adjective)
    1. (of a quantity) calculated as a mean; average:
      "by 1989, the mean age at marriage stood at 24.8 for women and 26.9 for men"
    2. equally far from two extremes:
      "hope is the mean virtue between despair and presumption"
    Origin
    Middle English: from Old French meien, from Latin medianus ‘middle’ (see median).
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