unmeanEtymologyFrom un- (“not”) + mean.adjNot 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.”verbTo 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.”