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nourishment, nutriment, sustenance, subsistence, pabulum, manna, staff of life; victuals, provisions, provender, rations, dietary, commons, comestibles, cheer, Western U.S. SI. chuck, Brit. SI. prog; mess, swill, Inf. glop, SI. slop.

meal2, grain, cereal, grits, groats, grist, farina, Trademark.

Pablum; oatmeal, corn meal, pearl barley, hominy, pearlhominy, rye hominy, pinole; oats, buckwheat, corn, maize, barley, rye, rice, millet, whole wheat; bran, flour, powder.

mealy, adj.1. crumbly, friable, granular, granulated, powdered, ground; flaky, floculent, scaly, scurfy.
2. farinaceous, oatlike, branny, branlike, furfura-ceous.

mealy-mouthed, adj.1. mincing, overnice, nice, overdelicate, delicate, overdainty, dainty, euphemistic, euphemistical, euphemious, affected; priggish, prim, proper, SI. uptight; tartuffian, pious, moral, self-righteous, sanctimonious, holier-than-thou, pharisaic, Pharisaical; oversubtle, casuistic, sophistic, sophistical, Both Offensive,

jesuitic, jesuitical.
2. circumlocutory, periphrastic, circuitous, roundabout, indirect, uncandid, unfrank, prevaricating, hedging, shifty, equivocating, equivocal, vague, ambiguous; hypocritical, double-tongued, two-faced, Janus-faced, crocodilian; specious, insincere, disingenuous, deceitful, misleading, lying, mendacious, dishonest, untruthful; honeyed, smooth, smoothtongued, smooth-spoken, unctuous, oily, artful, slick.
3. fawning, flattering, blandishing, sycophantic, ingratiating; obsequious, groveling, servile, slavish; cringing, sniveling, fearful, scared, lily-livered, chicken-hearted,
Inf.yellow.

mean1, v. 1. intend, have in mind, have in heart, have in view; contemplate, think of, talk of, dream of; purpose, plan, have plans orintentions, expect; aspire to, hope to, aim to, drive at, strive for, work for, labor for, pursue.
2. meant for
made for, destined for, predestined for, preordained for, predetermined for, fated for; well-suited, suited, well-matched, perfect, perfectly matched.
3. denote, designate, denominate, indicate, betoken, show; signify, stand for, symbolize, represent, typify; prefigure, foreshadow, portend, presage, omen, augur; connote, imply, import, purport, propose, suggest, allude to, drive at, get at, intimate, hint at, insinuate.
4. mean well
have good intentions, have one's heart in the right place.

mean2, adj.1. inferior, low-grade, cheap, catchpenny, bargain-basement, U.S. SI. cheesy, Brit. SI. humpty, flimsy, jerry-built; second-rate, second-class, third-class, third-rate; mediocre, unprofessional, amateurish, not up to par orsnuff; half-baked, SI. half-assed, sloppy, shoddy, slipshod, sleazy; poor, grubstreet, Inf.no-good, Inf.junky, trashy, rubbishy, worthless, useless, valueless; bad, Inf.lousy, SI. crummy, SI. crappy, miserable; awful, terrible, wretched, horrible, disgusting.
2. plebeian, proletarian, humble, modest, low, lowly; of low birth, lowborn, baseborn, earthborn; simple, plain, homespun, homely, rustic; common, commonplace, ordinary, average, mediocre; undistinguished,
Inf.inglorious, unknown, obscure.
3. small-time, one-horse, bush, bush-league, minor-league;
SI. two-bit, Inf.penny-ante, lightweight, SI. small potatoes, small fry, SI. mickey mouse; insignificant, unimportant, of little orno import, negligible, nugatory, inconsiderable, inconsequential; trivial, trifling, paltry, beggarly, petty, niggling; small, minor, puny, dinky, piddling, Inf.picayune, insubstantial,

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