Iron and Mean

Iron

Iron adjective - Not showing weakness or uncertainty.

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

Nearby Words: ironing, ironed, ironware, ironwork

Mean

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

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

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

How words are described

best best iron best mean
common common iron common mean
true true iron true mean
real real iron real mean
Other adjectives: big, huge, little, extra, giant.

Common collocations

point iron point mean point

Both words in one sentence

  • Video Game / Chivalry: Medieval Warfare They take either pebbles or iron balls as ammo; pebbles mean infinite ammo, iron balls do more damage but are limited and reload a little slower.
  • Series / The IT Crowd Noodle Incident: In the second episode of the first series Moss and Roy reference an incident in which a unattended soldering iron caused a golf... I mean fire.
  • A mean kid from high school, who treated the protagonist like dirt and ruled over the class with an iron fist turns up again.
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