unmean

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Not mean (all senses).

   • The Age of Innocence is based on an Edith Wharton novel and set in the very unmean streets of upper-crust New York, circa 1870.
   • But this whole time, all you've been doing is judging me, making not unmean comments about my new friends, about the guys I'm dating, about how much I drink, go out—everything—as if you don't approve.
   • They are so unmean, so just and so kind.
2. 2

   To reverse, cancel, or negate what was intentionally communicated.

   • The play works to unmean meaning by a double dislocation. It uses expectation to undermine expectation both of everyday 'reality' and of theatrical genre.
   • ... just as Steinian non-sense derives its power to “unmean” from the rigidly semantic context of most discursive forms
   • I'd meant everything I ever said to her, and I didn't know how to unmean it.

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