average
/ˈæv.ɚ.ɪd͡ʒ/ adjective A2- Constituting or relating to the average. · The average age of the participants was 18.5.
- Neither very good nor very bad; rated somewhere in the middle of all others in the same category. · I soon found I was only an average chess player.
- Typical. · The average family will not need the more expensive features of this product.
- Not outstanding, not good, banal; bad or poor.
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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Our visitor bore every mark of being an average commonplace British tradesman, obese, pompous, and slow.
Amazingly, that is enough drinking water to last an average person for over two years.
Instead of feeling empowered by this dazzling cornucopia, the average consumer frequently experiences a paralyzing sense of cognitive bewilderment.
He proposed manufacturing books that would cost no more than a modest railway ticket, making them accessible to the average worker.
Other matches
- average Any measure of central tendency, especially any... A2
- average To compute the average of, especially the arith... C1
- average down To buy more of a product, especially more share...
- average out To acquire a specified average value as more in...
- average up To calculate an average or rough figure.
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