What does "mean" mean to you?

Question

Tell me in your own words please -- thanks.

(Do not use the dictionary, encyclopedia, or anything else!)

Answer 1

Going out your way to treat others how they don't want to be treated.Making them feel bad and not stopping after you realize what you are doing.

Answer 2

The unbridled release of negative emotion, somehow communicated, at a focused object without regard to impact on the object itself.

Answer 3

(adj) cruel in a petty stupid way

(transitive verb)  to be mentally/emotionally associated with an idea or thing so closely as to be, practically, inseparable from it

"to have meaning" is to evoke emotions or responses even without having specific associations - to be associated with whole realms of important or powerful experiences

Answer 4

that all depends on what the definition of "is" is.

Answer 5

Deliberately unkind.

Answer 6

A very bad person, someone with bad feelings. People who enjoy making others suffer.

Answer 7

I assume you mean in the sense of meaning rather than meanness.  

If you think about meaning you realize that what "mean" means is how would you use something.  So "mean" means "how is it used".  There is also the auxiliary meaning of what is the context or environment.

Answer 8

Thats a funny question - i think it means 'being nasty' or like... harsh (meanness) but my mum thinks it means 'being tight with money' or like stingy.

Or, of course, it could be the average of something or it could be mean as in the meaning of a word? i really can't think how to describe that. I suppose you could say - the explanation.

Answer 9

the average, I just asked a Math question that is related to the MEAN.

Answer 10

The search for meaning is our true quest.

Answer 11

My interpretation of the subject discussed.

Answer 12

A quantity of understanding assigned to a person, place or thing.