Average and Generic

Average

Average adjective - Being about midway between extremes of amount or size.

Generic and average are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Generic" instead an adjective "Average".

Nearby Words: aver, averaged, averaging, averager

Generic

Generic adjective - Belonging or relating to the whole.

Average and generic are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Average" instead an adjective "Generic".

Nearby Words: general, generally, generalised

Both words in one sentence

  • Critical Dissonance On the critical side of things and amongst the more hardcore anime/manga fans, it’s generally treated as a fairly average and generic Shounen at best.
  • The Generic Guy By the end of the series when the students had only one team, Prodigy became the generic guy (he was the only average human).
  • The Generic Guy In practice, Joe is more naive than average (to give an example) but still mostly generic.
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