meschino

Signification (Anglais)

Adj

1. (literary) unfortunate, unlucky
2. (obsolete) servile, servantlike
3. inadequate, insufficient, meager, measly
4. (uncommon) frail, weakly (of a person's body)
5. (derogatory) petty, narrow-minded; wretched
6. poor used to express commiseration

Noun

1. (literary, masculine) an unfortunate or unlucky person
2. (masculine, obsolete) servant, subordinate
3. (masculine) wretch

Concepts

mesquin

minable

avare

étroit

étroite

maigre

pauvre

borné

dérisoire

Opposé de

felice, fortunato, adeguato, congruo, dignitoso, giusto, florido, forte, robusto, aperto, generoso, magnanimo, liberale, nobile

Synonymes

gretto

misero

di idee ristrette

vile

ristretto

basso

piccolo borghese

limitato

spregevole

avaro

miserabile

taccagno

meticoloso

piccino

pietoso

poveraccio

scarno

sfortunato

spilorcio

squallido

sventurato

turpe

filisteo

qualunquistico

attaccato ai piccoli particolari

di mentalità ristretta

pedanet

magro

minuzioso

povero

scarso

tirchio

volgare

cencioso

dappoco

di poco conto

disgraziato

ignobile

Traductions

mezquino

mesquinho

narrow-minded

petty

mean

stingy

little

meager

meagre

kleingeestig

geringfügig

gering

paltry

narrow

Coupé comme

me‧schì‧no

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/mesˈki.no/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Borrowed from Arabic مِسْكِين (miskīn) from Aramaic מסכנא (meskēnā), derived from Akkadian 𒈦𒆕𒂗 (muškēnum, “villein, indigent; class of people dependent or reliant on others, unable to provide supplies on their own; commoner”). The Akkadian term is first recorded in early dynastic Sumer. Compare French mesquin, Portuguese mesquinho, Sicilian mischinu, Spanish mezquino.