- 3. Channel, route, way, pass.
Aver, v. a. Assert, declare, asseverate, protest, avouch, allege, say, pronounce, predicate. See affirm.
Average, n.
- 1. Medium, mean proportion, medial sum or quantity.
- 2. Mediocrity, medium grade, mean standard.
Average, v. a.
- 1. Equate, reduce to an average, reduce to a mean.
- 2. (Com.) Proportion, distribute proportionally.
Average, v. n. Amount to, or result in (when the mean is taken.)
Average, a.
- 1. Medial, medium, mean.
- 2. Middling, ordinary, passable, moderate, tolerable, well enough, pretty well, not bad.
Averment, n. Affirmation, declaration, assertion, remark, asseveration, protestation, avowal, word. See aver.
Avernus, n (Mythol.) Hell, Tartarus, Hades, Erebus, the lower world, the infernal regions, shades below.
Averse, a. Unwilling, disinclined, indisposed, reluctant, loath, backward, adverse, opposed.
Aversion, n.
- 1. Dislike, distaste, disrelish, disinclination, reluctance, unwillingness, repugnance.
- 2. Antipathy, hatred, loathing, disgust, detestation, abhorrence, horror.
Avert, v. a.
- 1. Turn aside, turn away, turn off.
- 2. Prevent, divert, preclude, ward off, keep off. See forefend.
Avid, a. (Rare.) Eager, greedy.