Average and Picked

Average

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

Picked is an antonym for average.

Nearby Words: aver, averaged, averaging, averager

Picked

Picked adjective - Singled out from a number or group as more to one's liking.
Usage example: a picked group of people for the project

Average is an antonym for picked.

Nearby Words: pick, picky, picker, picking

Both words in one sentence

  • In the martial arts manga Kenji, Kenji's grandfather treats some injuries he picked up in a fight with Chinese medicine, noting that he's "still much better than your average doctor."
    Source: Martial Medic
  • Literature / The Day of the Triffids While he is more knowledgeable on the subject than the average man on the street, he is still basing this on second and third-hand rumors he picked up during his work with the triffids.
  • Buffy Speak Junko mentions that as a child, he was picked on for being more intellectual than your average Wallop; he's the only Wallop that plays a major role in the series, though, so we really have no baseline for where your average Wallop falls on the scale of thinking versus hitting things.
    Source: Buffy Speak
Cite this Source
Picked and Average. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 14, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/average/picked
Average & Picked. N.p., 2016. Web. 14 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/average/picked>.
Picked or Average. 2016. Accessed August 14, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/average/picked.
Google Ngram Viewer shows how "average" and "picked" have occurred on timeline