Average definition

Average as an adjective

1. approximating the statistical norm or average or expected value

   "the average income in New England is below that of the nation"

   Same sense: mean

2. lacking special distinction, rank, or status; commonly encountered

   "average people"

   Same sense: ordinary

3. lacking exceptional quality or ability

   "a novel of average merit"

   Same sense: fair, mediocre, middling

4. around the middle of a scale of evaluation

   "an orange of average size"

   Same sense: medium, intermediate

5. relating to or constituting the most frequent value in a distribution

   Same sense: modal

6. 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)

   Same sense: median

Average as a noun

7. a statistic describing the location of a distribution

   Same sense: norm

8. (sports) the ratio of successful performances to opportunities

9. an intermediate scale value regarded as normal or usual

   "he is about average in height"

Average as a verb

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

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

    Same sense: average out

11. achieve or reach on average

    "He averaged a C"

12. compute the average of

    Same sense: average out

Synonyms and antonyms

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

How to say average

Average has 3 syllables. Syllable counts and rhymes come from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary.

AVERAGE in word games

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Words With Friends

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