MEANIE Synonyms: 77 Similar and Opposite Words

meanie

noun

ˈmē-nē

variants also meany

Definition of meanie

as in villain

a mean, evil, or unprincipled person the class thought the substitute teacher was a big meanie when she assigned homework over the holidays

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Recent Examples of meanie Once cooler weather pushes in, experts predict that both the moon jellies and pink meanies are likely to disappear from Texas beaches. — Khloe Quill, FOXNews.com, 25 Sep. 2025 Hall, Nash, and Hogan—now wearing black and cultivating vicious dark stubble around his platinum mustache—were stylish meanies. — James Parker, The Atlantic, 6 July 2025 Years after the Jurassic Park disaster, the new Jurassic World has risen from its ashes with offerings that include a selection of classic dinosaurs and the new Indominus rex, a big meanie made from the genetic elements of other dinosaurs. — Keith Phipps, Vulture, 1 July 2025 Why was Bail such a meanie to Cassian in their first meeting together? — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 16 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for meanie

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Noun

Still, this villain’s origin story works better as a showcase for effects than anything tragic.

— Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2026
Directed by Grammy Award-winning filmmaker James Mackel, the visual is three-and-a-half minutes of spy stuff, our hero, dressed to impress, making short work of the many villains who lurk in her hotel.

— Lars Brandle, Billboard, 23 Oct. 2026

Definition of villain

Noun

Most sportsmen wonder how any whitetail bucks, let alone a brute such as Kontras’, could have been so easily patterned.

— Jeff Murray, Outdoor Life, 20 Aug. 2026
The show’s depiction of Hugh as a family man has been much more sympathetic than the book’s description of him as a power-hungry brute.

— James Grebey, Vulture, 10 Aug. 2026

Definition of brute

Noun

At last untethered from merely adapting a standard comfy passenger vehicle, the AMG engineers have created a monster.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 24 Oct. 2026
Set on a mysterious island ravaged by floods and warring armies, a masked boy and girl must traverse atmospheric environments, rescue friends, and confront nightmarish monsters.

— K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 23 Oct. 2026

Definition of monster

Noun

In Jennifer’s Body, Needy (Seyfried) is BFFs with the titular mean girl played by Fox, whose body becomes possessed by a succubus with a taste for teen boys after a botched sacrifice by a devil-worshipping boy band (led by Adam Brody).

— Glenn Garner, Deadline, 16 Oct. 2026
Behave yourself, buddy, or the little red devil will take you away!

— Sanat Pai Raikar, Encyclopedia Britannica, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of devil

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