aver | (verb) to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true | Synonyms: affirm, assert, avow, swan, swear, verify |
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(verb) report or maintain | Synonyms: allege, say |
average | (adjective) lacking special distinction, rank, or status; commonly encountered | Synonyms: ordinary |
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(adjective) around the middle of a scale of evaluation | Synonyms: intermediate, medium |
(adjective) lacking exceptional quality or ability | Synonyms: fair, mediocre, middling |
(adjective) 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) | Synonyms: median |
(adjective) approximating the statistical norm or average or expected value | Synonyms: mean |
(adjective) relating to or constituting the most frequent value in a distribution | Synonyms: modal |
(noun) a statistic describing the location of a distribution | Synonyms: norm |
(noun) an intermediate scale value regarded as normal or usual | - |
(noun) (sports) the ratio of successful performances to opportunities | - |
(verb) compute the average of | Synonyms: average out |
(verb) achieve or reach on average | - |
(verb) amount to or come to an average, without loss or gain | Synonyms: average out |
averageness | (noun) ordinariness as a consequence of being average and not outstanding | Synonyms: mediocrity |
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(noun) the state of being that is average; indicates normality but with connotations of mediocrity | - |
averment | (noun) a declaration that is made emphatically (as if no supporting evidence were necessary) | Synonyms: assertion, asseveration |
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averse | (adjective) (usually followed by `to') strongly opposed | Synonyms: antipathetic, antipathetical, indisposed, loath, loth |
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aversion | (noun) the act of turning yourself (or your gaze) away | Synonyms: averting |
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(noun) a feeling of intense dislike | Synonyms: antipathy, distaste |
aversive | (adjective) tending to repel or dissuade | - |
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avert | (verb) turn away or aside | Synonyms: turn away |
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(verb) prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening; to protect from or to keep away anything undesirable; to ward off | Synonyms: avoid, debar, deflect, fend off, forefend, forfend, head off, obviate, stave off, ward off |
avertable | (adjective) capable of being avoided or warded off | Synonyms: avertible, avoidable, evitable |
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avertible | (adjective) capable of being avoided or warded off | Synonyms: avertable, avoidable, evitable |
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averting | (noun) the act of preventing something from occurring | - |
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(noun) the act of turning yourself (or your gaze) away | Synonyms: aversion |