Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Not intentional.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not meant; not intended; undesigned.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Not meant or intended; unintentional.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Not meant

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Examples

  • My poor daughters ended up the unmeant psychic target, and I'm certain I scared the heck out of them.

    Randy Susan Meyers: Kind Or Cruel: What Kind Of Parent Are You? Randy Susan Meyers 2011

  • My poor daughters ended up the unmeant psychic target, and I'm certain I scared the heck out of them.

    Randy Susan Meyers: Kind Or Cruel: What Kind Of Parent Are You? Randy Susan Meyers 2011

  • These poems are as heartless as birdsong, as unmeant as elm leaves, which, if they love, love only the wide blue sky and the air and the idea of elm leaves.

    Selected Poems by Robert Bringhurst 2010

  • Imagine then a Congress composed of angry frightened men and women, aching for revenge against the cruel punishment inflicted upon their nation for an unmeant arrogance, for imperialist tinkering with peoples and cultures halfway around the world from their own sometimes sordid mess.

    Phoney War 2007

  • May I hope that in future they will recognize the distinction between severe language used in sober earnest, and the “words of unmeant bitterness”, which

    A Tangled Tale 2003

  • "As long as he doesn't step on my feet," Ria said, composing her face into another pleasant but totally unmeant smile.

    Beyond World's End Lackey, Mercedes 2001

  • "As long as he doesn't step on my feet," Ria said, composing her face into another pleasant but totally unmeant smile.

    Beyond World's End Lackey, Mercedes 2000

  • The noise shocked Sharina into an unmeant scream, but the touch of Nonnus 'hand prevented her from lurching out of the circle and perhaps off the platform itself.

    Lord of the Isles 1997

  • If Garric told the other villagers what he was thinking now, Sil could have joined in the laughter and repaid the boy's unmeant cruelty of past years.

    Lord of the Isles 1997

  • He dropped into a chair as Jason muttered an unmeant apology to Jeffries, and the "Master" glared and uttered insincere words of acceptance.

    Children Of The Night Lackey, Mercedes 1990

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