Average and Strange

Average

Average adjective - Being about midway between extremes of amount or size.
Usage example: since a Chihuahua seems as impractical as a Saint Bernard, let's get a dog of more average dimensions

Strange is an antonym for average.

Nearby Words: aver, averaged, averaging, averager

Strange

Strange adjective - Different from the ordinary in a way that causes curiosity or suspicion.
Usage example: the strange smell we'd noticed turned out, unhappily, to be from the dinner our host was making

Average is an antonym for strange.

Nearby Words: strangeness, stranger, strangely

Both words in one sentence

  • Light Novel / .hack//AI Buster It follows a solo player, Albireo, as he encounters a strange female NPC in an otherwise average dungeon in The World.
  • Series / The Americans Fan Disservice: "Clark" and Martha are played by attractive / average people, and they don't do anything strange, but their sex scenes still come across as off-putting.
  • Common in the NFL, with strange names combined with average or short surnames, such as D'Brickashaw Ferguson, Ndamukong Suh and Laveranues Coles.
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