Average and Relative

Average

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

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

Nearby Words: aver, averaged, averaging, averager

Relative adjective - Being such only when compared to something else.

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Average and relative are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Average" instead an adjective "Relative".

old	old average	old relative
female	female average	female relative
best	best average	best relative
dead	dead average	dead relative
Other adjectives: powerful, male, supposed, late, smaller, modern.

This is bizarre, as IQ is a relative measure based around the average/mean IQ of the population always being 100.

Source: Improbably High I.Q.
Monsters use Level Scaling to beef up relative to the party average, making it entirely worthless to level up to Lv.100 because every enemy will get stronger to invalidate your grinding.

Source: Video Game / Final Fantasy VIII
Some people find the Vikings' relative lack of metal armour to be hard to believe, but archaeology suggests that the average Viking was indeed not heavily armored.

Source: Series / Vikings

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