Roget's Thesaurus

#29. Mean

Nouns

mean, average; median, mode; balance, medium, mediocrity, generality; golden mean etc. (mid-course) 628; middle etc. 68; compromise etc. 774; middle course, middle state; neutrality. mediocrity, least common denominator.

Verbs

split the difference; take the average etc. n.; reduce to a mean etc. n.; strike a balance, pair off.

Adjectives

mean, intermediate; middle etc. 68; average; neutral. mediocre, middle-class; commonplace etc. (unimportant) 643.

Adverbs

on an average, in the long run; taking one with another, taking all things together, taking it for all in all; communibus annis [Lat.], in round numbers.

Phrases

medium tenuere beati [Lat.].