Average and Worse

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

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

Nearby Words: aver, averaged, averaging, averager

Worse adjective - (comparative of `bad') inferior to another in quality or condition or desirability.

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Average and worse are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Average" instead an adjective "Worse".

Nearby Words: worst, worsen, worsening, worsened

In most cases, they're of only average or worse effectiveness; although in a few (such as the cat paw club), they're fairly powerful.

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A-Rod has never had a season where he has been average or worse as measured by OPS.

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While it may be Too Soon to call, opinions vary about whether his performance was Boring but Practical, So Okay, It's Average or worse (or better).

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