Synonyms for average
ˈæv ər ɪdʒ, ˈæv rɪdʒav·er·age

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1. averageadjective

   Constituting or relating to the average.

   The average of 10, 20 and 24 is (10 + 20 + 24)/3 = 18.

   Synonyms:
   mean, expectation

2. averageadjective

   Neither very good nor very bad; rated somewhere in the middle of all others in the same category.

   The daily high temperature last month averaged 15C.

   Synonyms:
   unremarkable, so-so, middling, mediocre, medium, middle, comme ci comme ça, rank

   Antonyms:
   extraordinary

3. averageadjective

   An indication of a player's ability calculated from his scoring record, etc.

   batting average

   Synonyms:
   standard, typical, usual, normal, regular, conventional, bog-standard

4. averageadjective

   Not outstanding, not good, banal; bad or poor.

   Synonyms:
   ordinary, uninspiring

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:4.0 / 1 vote

1. average

   Synonyms:
   mean, medium, middle, mediocre

   Antonyms:
   extreme, excess, defect, perfectness, perfection

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1. average, normnoun

   a statistic describing the location of a distribution

   "it set the norm for American homes"

   Synonyms:
   norm

   Antonyms:
   abnormal, unnatural, immoderate, uncommon, extraordinary

2. averagenoun

   (sports) the ratio of successful performances to opportunities

   Synonyms:
   norm

   Antonyms:
   uncommon, unnatural, abnormal, immoderate, extraordinary

3. averageadjective

   an intermediate scale value regarded as normal or usual

   "he is about average in height"; "the snowfall this month is below average"

   Synonyms:
   norm

   Antonyms:
   abnormal, unnatural, uncommon, extraordinary, immoderate

4. average, mean(a)adjective

   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"

   Antonyms:
   abnormal, unnatural, extraordinary, uncommon, immoderate

5. average, ordinaryadjective

   lacking special distinction, rank, or status; commonly encountered

   "average people"; "the ordinary (or common) man in the street"

   Synonyms:
   fair, mean(a), middling, ordinary, median(a), mediocre, medium, modal(a), intermediate

   Antonyms:
   uncommon, abnormal, unnatural, immoderate, extraordinary

6. average, fair, mediocre, middlingadjective

   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"

   Synonyms:
   mean(a), modal(a), mediocre, second-rate, reasonable, intermediate, fair(a), medium, bonnie, comely, middling, bonny, ordinary, just, median(a), sightly, clean, fair, fairish, honest

   Antonyms:
   unnatural, immoderate, abnormal, extraordinary, uncommon

7. average, intermediate, mediumadjective

   around the middle of a scale of evaluation

   "an orange of average size"; "intermediate capacity"; "medium bombers"

   Synonyms:
   fair, mean(a), middling, ordinary, median(a), mediocre, medium, modal(a), intermediate

   Antonyms:
   extraordinary, unnatural, abnormal, uncommon, immoderate

8. modal(a), averageadjective

   relating to or constituting the most frequent value in a distribution

   "the modal age at which American novelists reach their peak is 30"

   Antonyms:
   extraordinary, immoderate, unnatural, abnormal, uncommon

9. median(a), averageverb

   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"

   Antonyms:
   abnormal, unnatural, immoderate, uncommon, extraordinary

10. average, average outverb

    amount to or come to an average, without loss or gain

    "The number of hours I work per work averages out to 40"

    Synonyms:
    average out

    Antonyms:
    unnatural, extraordinary, immoderate, abnormal, uncommon

11. averageverb

    achieve or reach on average

    "He averaged a C"

    Synonyms:
    average out

    Antonyms:
    unnatural, abnormal, uncommon, immoderate, extraordinary

12. average, average outverb

    compute the average of

    Synonyms:
    average out

    Antonyms:
    abnormal, uncommon, unnatural, extraordinary, immoderate

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1. averagenoun

   Synonyms:
   medium, mean proportion, medial sum or quantity

2. averagenoun

   Synonyms:
   mediocrity, medial standard, average standard

3. averageverb

   Synonyms:
   equate, reduce to an average, reduce to a mean

4. averageverb

   Synonyms:
   (Com.) proportion, distribute proportionally

5. averageverb

   Synonyms:
   amount to, or result in, when the mean is taken

6. averageadjective

   Synonyms:
   medial, mean

7. averageadjective

   Synonyms:
   middling, ordinary, passable, moderate, tolerable, well enough, pretty well, not bad

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1. averageadjective

   Synonyms:
   medium, ordinary, mediocre, middling

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1. List of paraphrases for "average":

   medium, mean, means, medium-sized, media, averages, way, middle, averaging, moderate, plea, median, east, avg, medium-, medium-size, mediterranean, 225, ways, half, medium-scale, tool, rate

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1. Jared Baeten:

   Just because someone has a high viral load doesn't make them Super Spreader ' if they're behind a mask [ or ] at home, because the super spreading happens when someone who is able to transmit the virus is in contact with enough people that they end up spreading the virus to more people than the average.

2. Mark Twain:

   Religion consists of a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain.

3. Andrew Emmons:

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4. James Stroud:

   A major unexpected result of this study was that all species converged on the same new, lower level of thermal tolerance, while there was great variation in temperature tolerance before the cold event -- some, like the large-bodied brown basilisk, were very intolerant of low temperatures, while others like the Puerto Rican crested anole were more robust -- we observed that all species could now tolerate, on average, the same lowest temperature.

5. Mayor William Carpenter:

   It’s a blue-collar immigrant city where two years ago, 80 percent of the students in our school system qualified for free or reduced lunch, our unemployment rate runs about 50 percent above the statewide average historically, and we’re a majority-minority city.