average

• The average age of the participants was 18.5.

Synonyms: mean expectation

• I soon found I was only an average chess player.

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 okayish ordinary pedestrian unexceptional uninspiring shitty tolerable whatever

Antonyms: extraordinary

• The average family will not need the more expensive features of this product.
• We tend to think that exceptionally attractive men and women are outstanding but the fact is that they are more average than most. - 2002, Andy Turnbull, The Synthetic Beast: When Corporations Come to Life, page 12:
• Things that never would occur to more average children, with and without AD/HD, will give these children nightmares. - 2004, Deirdre V. Lovecky, Different Minds: Gifted Children with AD/HD, Asperger Syndrome, and Other...

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

• The graphics, sound, and most everything else are all very average. However, the main thing that brings this game down are the controls - they feel very clumsy and awkward at times. - 2002, Andy Slaven, Video Game...
• But what the vast majority of the populace doesn′t realise is the fact that he′s only on TV because he became famous from one case, Winona Ryder's, which, by the way, he lost because he′s only a very average attorney. -...
• In the piano stool there was a stack of music, mostly sentimental ballads intended to be sung by people with very average voices accompanied by not very competent pianists. - 2009, Carn Tiernan, On the Back of the Other...

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

• You need to show some averages in an executive summary, show some samples of raw data in the document body, and move the full raw data to an appendix.
• In conclusion, it may savour of anticlimax to mention that from May 22 the famous "Sud Express," over the same route, has been covering the 359.7 miles from Paris Austerlitz to Bordeaux in 4 hr. 59 min. daily, at a...

1. (mathematics) The arithmetic mean.

   • The average of 10, 20 and 24 is (10 + 20 + 24)/3 = 18.
   • But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 (the average of the 15 poorest countries’ own poverty lines, measured in 2005 dollars and adjusted for differences in purchasing power): people below that level live lives...

   Synonyms: mean

   Hypernyms: mean

   Coordinate Terms: geometric mean harmonic mean quadratic mean weighted mean median mode

• Historically, the courts have allowed a general average claim only where the loss occurred as a result of the ship being in immediate peril.[…]The court awarded the carrier the general average claim. It noted that “a...

1. (dated) Proportional or equitable distribution of financial expense.

2. (obsolete) Customs duty or similar charge payable on transported goods.

• batting average

• If you average 10, 20, and 24, you get 18.

• The daily high temperature last month averaged 15°C.
• I averaged 75% in my examinations this year.
• The five roller-bearing A1s are now averaging 120,000 miles between shopping; this figure is an improvement of about 50 per cent on the norm of other ex-L.N.E. Pacific types. - 1961 November 5, “Talking of Trains: The...

• to average a loss

• Gulls average much larger than terns, with stouter build […] - 1872, Elliott Coues, Key to North American Birds: