Definition as Noun

• (sports) the ratio of successful performances to opportunities
• an intermediate scale value regarded as normal or usual
• a statistic describing the location of a distribution

Definition as Verb

• achieve or reach on average
• amount to or come to an average, without loss or gain
• compute the average of

Definition as Adjective

• lacking exceptional quality or ability
• around the middle of a scale of evaluation
• approximating the statistical norm or average or expected value
• 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)
• relating to or constituting the most frequent value in a distribution
• lacking special distinction, rank, or status; commonly encountered

• fair, mediocre, middling

• intermediate, medium

• mean

• median

• modal

• ordinary

• norm

• average out

• average out

• "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"

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

• "the average income in New England is below that of the nation"; "of average height for his age"; "the mean annual rainfall"

• "the median value of 17, 20, and 36 is 20"; "the median income for the year was $15,000"

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

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

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

• "it set the norm for American homes"

• "He averaged a C"

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

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