Good vs Average - What's the difference?

As adjectives the difference between good and average

is that good is acting in the interest of good; ethical while average is (not comparable) constituting or relating to the average.

As nouns the difference between good and average

is that good is (uncountable) the forces or behaviors that are the enemy of evil usually consists of helping others and general benevolence while average is (legal|marine) financial loss due to damage to transported goods; compensation for damage or loss.

As verbs the difference between good and average

is that good is to thrive; fatten; prosper; improve or good can be to furnish with dung; manure; fatten with manure; fertilise while average is (informal) to compute the arithmetic mean of.

As a interjection good

is that is good: an elliptical exclamation of satisfaction or commendation.

As a adverb good

is (nonstandard) well; satisfactorily or thoroughly.

good

English

(wikipedia good)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) good, from (etyl) . Related to gather.

Alternative forms

* (poetic contraction)

Adjective

(lb) Of people.

#Acting in the interest of good; ethical.

#*1891 , (Oscar Wilde), (The Picture of Dorian Gray) , Ch.6

#*:When we are happy, we are always good', but when we are ' good , we are not always happy.

#Competent or talented.

#*(Robert South) (1634–1716)

#*:Those are generally good' at flattering who are ' good for nothing else.

#*{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Michael Arlen), title= “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days, chapter=3/19/2

, passage=Ivor had acquired more than a mile of fishing rights with the house?; he was not at all a good fisherman, but one must do something?; one generally, however, banged a ball with a squash-racket against a wall.}}

#Able to be depended on for the discharge of obligations incurred; of unimpaired credit.

(lb)

#Useful for a particular purpose; functional.

#*{{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author= David Van Tassel], [http://www.americanscientist.org/authors/detail/lee-dehaan Lee DeHaan

, title= Wild Plants to the Rescue , volume=101, issue=3, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Plant breeding is always a numbers game.

#Effective.

#*:There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good , serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls.

#(lb) Real; actual; serious.

#*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

#*:Love no man in good earnest.

(lb) Of properties and qualities.

#(lb)

##Edible; not stale or rotten.

##:

##Having a particularly pleasant taste.

##:

##* c. 1430' (reprinted '''1888 ), Thomas Austin, ed., ''Two Fifteenth-century Cookery-books. Harleian ms. 279 (ab. 1430), & Harl. ms. 4016 (ab. 1450), with Extracts from Ashmole ms. 1429, Laud ms. 553, & Douce ms. 55 [Early English Text Society, Original Series; 91], London: 374760, page 11:

Soupes dorye. — Take gode almaunde mylke

##* 1962' (quoting '''1381 text), (Hans Kurath) & Sherman M. Kuhn, eds., ''(Middle English Dictionary) , Ann Arbor, Mich.: (University of Michigan Press), , page 1242:

dorr?̅', '''d?r?''' adj. & n. toste wyte bred and do yt in dischis, and ' god Almande mylk.

##Being satisfying; meeting dietary requirements.

##:

#Healthful.

#Pleasant; enjoyable.

#Favourable.

#Beneficial; worthwhile.

#*, chapter=22

, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=Not unnaturally, “Auntie” took this communication in bad part.

#Adequate; sufficient; not fallacious.

#*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

#*:My reasons are both good and weighty.

(lb) With "and", extremely.

(lb) Holy.

(lb) Of quantities.

#Reasonable in amount.

#Large in amount or size.

#*:The big houses, and there are a good many of them, lie for the most part in what may be called by courtesy the valleys. You catch a glimpse of them sometimes at a little distance from the [railway] line, which seems to have shown some ingenuity in avoiding them,.

#Entire.

#*:Athelstan Arundel walked home all the way, foaming and raging. No omnibus, cab, or conveyance ever built could contain a young man in such a rage. His mother lived at Pembridge Square, which is four good measured miles from Lincoln's Inn.

Synonyms

* (having positive attributes) not bad, all right, satisfactory, decent * (healthful) well * (competent or talented) accomplished

Antonyms

* (having positive attributes) bad, poor * (ethical) bad, evil

Derived terms

* come from a good place * do well by doing good * fight the good fight * for good * good afternoon * good and * * good books * goodbye * good day * good drunk * gooden * good-for-nothing * good graces * good grief * goodish * good job * good morning * goodly * goodness * good night * good to go * good works * the good die young * too much of a good thing

Interjection

(en interjection)

That is good: an elliptical exclamation of satisfaction or commendation.

Good! I can leave now.

Etymology 2

From (etyl) , all from the adjective.

Adverb

(nonstandard) Well; satisfactorily or thoroughly.

* 1906 , Zane Grey, The Spirit of the Border: A Romance of the Early Settlers in the Ohio Valley

If Silvertip refuses to give you the horse, grab him before he can draw a weapon, and beat him good . You're big enough to do it.

* 2007 April 19, , WHYY, Pennsylvania [http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9683874]

The one thing that we can't do...''is throw out the baby with the bathwater.''...'' We know our process works pretty darn good and, uh, it’s really sparked this amazing phenomenon of this''... high-quality website.

Derived terms

* but good

Etymology 3

From (etyl) good, god, from (etyl) .

Noun

(uncountable) The forces or behaviors that are the enemy of evil. Usually consists of helping others and general benevolence.

* , chapter=13

, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes. He said that if you wanted to do anything for them, you must rule them, not pamper them. Soft heartedness caused more harm than good .}}

(countable) A result that is positive in the view of the speaker.

(uncountable) The abstract instantiation of goodness; that which possesses desirable qualities, promotes success, welfare, or happiness, is serviceable, fit, excellent, kind, benevolent, etc.

* Bible, Psalms iv. 6

There be many that say, Who will show us any good ?

* Jay

The good' of the whole community can be promoted only by advancing the ' good of each of the members composing it.

(countable, usually in plural) An item of merchandise.

* (William Shakespeare)

Thy lands and goods / Are, by the laws of Venice, confiscate / Unto the state of Venice.

Antonyms

* (forces of good) bad, evil * (positive result) bad

Derived terms

* (item of merchandise) capital goods, consumer goods

Etymology 4

From (etyl) goden, godien, from (etyl) .

Verb

(en verb)

To thrive; fatten; prosper; improve.

To make good; turn to good; improve.

To make improvements or repairs.

To benefit; gain.

To do good to (someone); benefit; cause to improve or gain.

To satisfy; indulge; gratify.

To flatter; congratulate oneself; anticipate.

Derived terms

* (l)

Etymology 5

From English dialectal, from (etyl) , ultimately from the adjective. See above.

Verb

(en verb)

To furnish with dung; manure; fatten with manure; fertilise.

(Bishop Hall)

Derived terms

* (l)

Statistics

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average

English

(wikipedia average)

Noun

(en noun)

(legal, marine) Financial loss due to damage to transported goods; compensation for damage or loss.

* 2008 , Filiberto Agusti, Beverley Earle, Richard Schaffer, Filiberto Agusti, Beverley Earle, International Business Law and Its Environment , page 219,

Historically, the courts have allowed a general average' claim only where the loss occurred as a result of the ship being in immediate peril.The court awarded the carrier the general '''average''' claim. It noted that “a ship?s master should not be discouraged from taking timely action to avert a disaster,” and need not be in actual peril to claim general ' average .

Customs duty or similar charge payable on transported goods.

Proportional or equitable distribution of financial expense.

(mathematics) The arithmetic mean.

* {{quote-magazine, title=Towards the end of poverty

, date=2013-06-01, volume=407, issue=8838, page=11, magazine=(The Economist) citation , passage=But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 (the average of the 15 poorest countries’ own poverty lines, measured in 2005 dollars and adjusted for differences in purchasing power): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.}}

The average of 10, 20 and 24 is (10 + 20 + 24)/3 = 18.

(statistics) Any measure of central tendency, especially any mean, the median, or the mode.

(sports) An indication of a player's ability calculated from his scoring record, etc.

(UK, legal, obsolete) The service that a tenant owed his lord, to be done by the animals of the tenant, such as the transportation of wheat, turf, etc.

(UK, in the plural) In the corn trade, the medial price of the several kinds of grain in the principal corn markets.

Usage notes

* (sense) The term average' may refer to the statistical mean, median or mode of a batch, sample, or distribution, or sometimes any other measure of central tendency. Statisticians and responsible news sources are careful to use whichever of these specific terms is appropriate. In common usage, ' average refers to the arithmetic mean. It is, however, a common rhetorical trick to call the most favorable of mean, median and mode the "average" depending on the interpretation of a set of figures that the speaker or writer wants to promote.

Coordinate terms

* (measure of central tendency) arithmetic mean, geometric mean, harmonic mean, mean, median, mode

Derived terms

* above average * average atomic mass * averager * batting average * below average * bowling average * earned run average * general average * grade point average * height above average terrain * law of averages * moving average * on average * particular average * rolling average * slugging average * subaverage * time average * weighted average * weighted-average cost of capital

Adjective

(en adjective)

(not comparable) Constituting or relating to the average.

The average age of the participants was 18.5.

Neither very good nor very bad; rated somewhere in the middle of all others in the same category.

I soon found I was only an average chess player.

Typical.

* 2002 , Andy Turnbull, The Synthetic Beast: When Corporations Come to Life , page 12,

We tend to think that exceptionally attractive men and women are outstanding but the fact is that they are more average than most.

* 2004 , Deirdre V. Lovecky, Different Minds: Gifted Children with AD/HD, Asperger Syndrome, and Other Learning Deficits , page 75,

Things that never would occur to more average children, with and without AD/HD, will give these children nightmares.

* '2009'', Susan T. Fiske, ''Social Beings: Core Motives in Social Psychology , page 73,

In other words, highly attractive people like highly attractive communicators and more average' people like more ' average communicators.

The average family will not need the more expensive features of this product.

(informal) Not outstanding, not good, banal; bad or poor.

* 2002 , Andy Slaven, Video Game Bible, 1985-2002 , page 228,

The graphics, sound, and most everything else are all very average . However, the main thing that brings this game down are the controls - they feel very clumsy and awkward at times.

* 2005 , Brad Knight, Laci Peterson: The Whole Story: Laci, Scott, and Amber's Deadly Love Triangle , page 308,

But what the vast majority of the populace doesn?t realise is the fact that he?s only on TV because he became famous from one case, Winona Ryder's, which, by the way, he lost because he?s only a very average attorney.

* 2009 , Carn Tiernan, On the Back of the Other Side , page 62,

In the piano stool there was a stack of music, mostly sentimental ballads intended to be sung by people with very average voices accompanied by not very competent pianists.

Synonyms

* (constituting or relating to the average) mean; expectation (colloquial) * (neither very good nor very bad) mediocre, medium, middle-ranking, middling, unremarkable, so-so, * (typical) conventional, normal, regular, standard, typical, usual, bog-standard (slang) * ordinary, uninspiring

Antonyms

* (neither very good nor very bad) extraordinary

Derived terms

* average bear * average Joe * averagely * averageness

Verb

(averag)

(informal) To compute the arithmetic mean of.

If you average 10, 20 and 24, you get 18.

Over a period of time or across members of a population, to have or generate a mean value of.

The daily high temperature last month averaged 15°C.

To divide among a number, according to a given proportion.

to average a loss

To be, generally or on average.

* 1872 Elliott Coues, Key to North American Birds

Gulls average much larger than terns, with stouter build

Derived terms

* average down * average out * average up * averageable * unaveraged