Elementary 📚 Vocabulary · #1130 of 1319

mean (adj.)

unkind or not generous

Examples

  • Don't be mean.

Key rules

  • Mean means unkind or not willing to share
  • Don't be mean, a mean remark
  • Meanness is the noun
💡 Tip: Describing behaviour // Relationships // Money
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