average

  • (s) approximating the statistical norm or average or expected value
    • the average income in New England is below that of the nation
    • of average height for his age
    • the mean annual rainfall
    mean,
  • (s) lacking special distinction, rank, or status; commonly encountered
    • average people
    • the ordinary (or common) man in the street
    ordinary,
  • (s) lacking exceptional quality or ability
    • a novel of average merit
    • only a fair performance of the sonata
    • in fair health
    • the caliber of the students has gone from mediocre to above average
    • the performance was middling at best
    middling, mediocre, fair,
  • (s) around the middle of a scale of evaluation
    • an orange of average size
    • intermediate capacity
    • medium bombers
    medium, intermediate,
  • (s) relating to or constituting the most frequent value in a distribution
    • the modal age at which American novelists reach their peak is 30
    modal,
  • (s) relating to or constituting the middle value of an ordered set of values (or the average of the middle two in a set with an even number of values)
    • the median value of 17, 20, and 36 is 20
    • the median income for the year was $15,000
    median,

Nouns

  • (n) a statistic describing the location of a distribution
    • it set the norm for American homes
    norm,
  • (n) (sports) the ratio of successful performances to opportunities
  • (n) an intermediate scale value regarded as normal or usual
    • he is about average in height
    • the snowfall this month is below average

Verbs

  • (v) amount to or come to an average, without loss or gain
    • The number of hours I work per work averages out to 40
    average out,
  • (v) achieve or reach on average
    • He averaged a C
  • (v) compute the average of average out,

Synonyms

average out norm mean ordinary middling mediocre fair medium intermediate modal median

Words of close approximity

average cost averageness average out