Infected and Mean

Infected

Infected adjective - Containing or resulting from disease-causing organisms.

Mean and infected are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Mean" instead an adjective "Infected".

Nearby Words: infection, infective, infecting

Mean

Mean adjective - Being about midway between extremes of amount or size.

Infected and mean are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Infected" instead an adjective "Mean".

Nearby Words: means, meaning, meanness, meant, meanly

Both words in one sentence

  • These not only mean that she has the sickness that's going around, but also that she probably infected the poor fool she just slept with, too.
  • An infected Kirby, due to his normal innocence, merely becomes a mean trickster bent on breaking everything and anything he sees.
  • Sergeant Nathan Hale in Resistance: Fall Of Man is an example of this trope, as even when he is infected with the Chimera Virus, he just turns into a lean mean bug-busting machine.
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