MEANIE Synonyms: 77 Similar and Opposite Words

meanie

noun

ˈmē-nē

variants also meany

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 I'mPhaedra Trethan, applauding this Missouri TV anchor for mocking the meanies who tried to mock her. —

Phaedra Trethan, USA Today, 11 Dec. 2025 This causes Gemma and other fellow patients/victims to verbally grapple quite literally with themselves, their assertive/meanie half pitted against their milder/empathetic side. —

Christopher Smith, Oc Register, 5 Nov. 2025 The meanie store manager (played, with cartoony hard-ass villainy, by Peter Dinklage) refuses to make a donation, so Manchester gathers a bagful of (stolen) toys and brings them over to the church himself. —

Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 10 Oct. 2025 The Drymonema larsoni, commonly known as pink meanies, were first observed in the Gulf Coast in 2000. —

Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 25 Sep. 2025 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 The film really is a David vs. Goliath story about a team of underdogs who band together to take down the big meanie. —

Stephanie Sengwe, People.com, 19 June 2025

Recent Examples of Synonyms for meanie

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The movie does attempt to gesture at class and race as thematic underpinnings (the maids trapped in The Virgil are mostly non-white, while the villains are rich Caucasians), but like the story and action at large, these go pretty much nowhere, and feel like obligatory symbols.

— Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 18 Mar. 2026
Each ship name in the class has fed into a theme on board, with Wish tied to enchantment, Treasure to adventure and Destiny to heroes and villains.

— Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 18 Mar. 2026