Mean and Smart

Mean

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

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

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

Smart

Smart adjective - Being strikingly neat and trim in style or appearance.

Mean and smart are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Mean" instead an adjective "Smart".

Nearby Words: smarten, smartness, smartly

Common collocations

power mean power smart power
work mean work smart work
trouble mean trouble smart trouble
point mean point smart point
Other words: head.

Both words in one sentence

  • Boomerang Comeback Instead, it lands in the face of his sidekick, Smart Girl — but as she points out, that still mean he's in trouble.
  • The Brute She's fast and smart for this trope and on the good guys' side to boot, but her mean streak is so wide that, together with the even heavier and less vicious Baindur, it pushes her into this trope.
    Source: The Brute
  • Marge: Lisa, see what we mean when we say you're too smart for your own good?
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