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adj
Constituting or relating to the average.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Synonyms: mean, expectation
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Neither very good nor very bad; rated somewhere in the middle of all others in the same category.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Synonyms: comme ci comme ça, mediocre, medium, middling, unremarkable, so-so, average, crappy, decent, indifferent, lackluster, meh, mid, no great shakes, nothing to write home about, not worth writing home about, OK, okayish, ordinary, pedestrian, unexceptional, uninspiring, shitty, tolerable, whatever
Antonyms: extraordinary
adj
Typical.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Synonyms: conventional, normal, regular, standard, typical, usual, bog-standard, average, basic, common, common as bums, common as dirt, common as muck, common as pig tracks, dime a dozen, everyday, frequent, general, habitual, nonrare, par for the course, pedestrian, plain, quotidian, routinary, routine, ten a penny, two a penny, workaday, medial, commonplace, common-and-garden, common-or-garden, congruent, consistent, customary, expected, garden variety, improminent, mundane, natural, ordinary, par, plain vanilla, run-of-the-mill, standard issue, unexceptional, unremarkable, unstrange, vulgar, wakeaday
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Not outstanding, not good, banal; bad or poor.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: ordinary, unexceptional, abysmal, atrocious, awful, bad, chronic, coarse, corny, crap, crapalicious, crappy, crummy, deityforsaken, dire, disagreeable, dismal, dogshit, dreadful, fifth-rate, foul, fourth-rate, godawful, hellish, hideous, hopeless, horrendous, horrid, horrible, horrific, inadequate, incompetent, inelegant, intolerable, inferior, lackluster, loathsome, lousy, miserable, naff, negative, odious, pathetic, peak, piss-poor, rotten, rubbish, shitawful, shitty, sixth-rate, sloppy, subpar, terrible, unfavorable, wack
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Any measure of central tendency, especially any mean, the median, or the mode.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: mathematics, sciences, statistics
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Any measure of central tendency, especially any mean, the median, or the mode.
The arithmetic mean.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: mathematics, sciences, statistics
Synonyms: mean
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: mean
noun
A financial loss due to damage to transported goods; compensation for damage or loss.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: law, nautical, transport
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A financial loss due to damage to transported goods; compensation for damage or loss.
Proportional or equitable distribution of financial expense.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dated
Topics: law, nautical, transport
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A financial loss due to damage to transported goods; compensation for damage or loss.
Customs duty or similar charge payable on transported goods.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
Topics: law, nautical, transport
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
An indication of a player's ability calculated from his scoring record, etc.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: hobbies, lifestyle, sports
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
The feudal service that a tenant owed his lord, to be done by the animals of the tenant, such as the transportation of wheat, turf, etc.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, obsolete
Topics: law
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To compute the average of, especially the arithmetic mean.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Over a period of time or across members of a population, to have or generate a mean value of.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To divide among a number, according to a given proportion.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To be, generally or on average.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
lacking special distinction, rank, or status; commonly encountered
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: ordinary
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
around the middle of a scale of evaluation
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: intermediate, medium
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
approximating the statistical norm or average or expected value
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: mean(a)
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
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)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: median(a)
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
relating to or constituting the most frequent value in a distribution
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: modal(a)
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
lacking exceptional quality or ability
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: fair, mediocre, middling
Antonyms: none provided
noun
an intermediate scale value regarded as normal or usual
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: scale value
noun
a statistic describing the location of a distribution
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: norm
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: statistic
Narrower terms: age norm, mode, modal value, median, median value, mean, mean value
noun
(sports) the ratio of successful performances to opportunities
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: ratio
Narrower terms: batting average, hitting average, fielding average
verb
compute the average of
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: average out
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: calculate, cipher, cypher, compute, work out, reckon, figure
verb
achieve or reach on average
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: achieve, accomplish, attain, reach
verb
amount to or come to an average, without loss or gain
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: average out
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: total, number, add up, come, amount
History
Etymology tree Arabic عَوَار (ʕawār) Proto-Afroasiatic Proto-Semitic Arabic ـِيّ (-iyy) Proto-Afroasiatic *-t Proto-Semitic *-at- Arabic ـَة (-a) Arabic ـِيَّة (-iyya) Arabic عَوَارِيَّة (ʕawāriyya)bor.? Proto-Indo-European *gheh1bh- Proto-Indo-European *-éh1ti Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éh1yeti Proto-Indo-European *ghh1bhéh1yeti Proto-Italic *haβēō Latin habēre Old Italian avére Old Italian -ìa ? Old Italian avariabor. Old French avarie Middle French avarie Proto-Indo-European *-h2 Proto-Indo-European *-éh2 Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh2tos Proto-Italic *-ātos Latin -ātus Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icus Latin -āticus Latin -āticum Old French -agebor. Middle English -age English -age English average Not entirely certain. The oldest meaning in English is “customs duty”. Borrowed from Middle French avarie (“damage to ship or cargo”), from Old French avarie, from Old Italian avaria where it is first attested in the 12th century in the context of Mediterranean trade. From there most sources trace it to Arabic عَوَارِيَّة (ʕawāriyya, “damaged goods”), from عَوَار (ʕawār, “fault, blemish, defect, flaw”), from عَوِرَ (ʕawira, “to lose an eye”), but the OED gives it a Romance derivation from Italian avere (“property, goods”) or the like. The English suffix -age was added in analogy to words like damage.
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *gheh1bh- Proto-Indo-European *-éh1ti Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éh1yeti Proto-Indo-European *ghh1bhéh1yeti Proto-Italic *haβēō Latin habeō Old French averder. Middle English aver Proto-Indo-European *-h2 Proto-Indo-European *-éh2 Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh2tos Proto-Italic *-ātos Latin -ātus Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icus Latin -āticus Latin -āticum Old French -agebor. Middle English -age Middle English average English average From Middle English average, from Medieval Latin averagium, from aver (“horse or other beast of burden, service required from the same”) from Old English eafor (“obligation to carry goods and convey messages for one's lord”) from aferian (“to remove, take away”); + -age.
Across languages
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