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average

Definition for average

adjective as in numerical mean

Strongest match

median

Strong matches

intermediate, medium, middle

noun as in normal, typical amount

Strongest matches

median, standard

Strong matches

mean, medium, middle, midpoint, norm, par, rule

Weak match

usual

verb as in obtain numerical mean

Strong matches

balance, equate

Weak match

even out

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Well over a thousand holes in, I average less than four strokes per hole.

On average, the vaccine has an efficacy of about 60 percent.

Average age ranges from 45 to 65, with her youngest client at 18 and the oldest in her 80s.

Ramos was 38—nearly two decades older than the average recruit.

All because Murthy believes that gun violence, which kills an average of 86 Americans every day, is a public health issue.

I do not think the average number of passengers on a corresponding route in our country could be so few as twenty.

Though the average speaker is generally limited by one type of voice, which he varies somewhat, it is not often disguised.

I should judge that a peck of corn is about the average product of a day's work through all this region.

The average citizen of three generations ago was probably not aware that he was an extreme individualist.

He was a pretty bright sort, that same Goodell, quick-witted, nimble of tongue above the average Englishman.

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On this page you'll find 141 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to average, such as: mediocre, moderate, ordinary, regular, boilerplate, and common.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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