Definitions

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  • adjective Below average.
  • noun statistics A subordinate or local average.

Etymologies

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sub- +‎ average

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Examples

  • But there is general agreement that it is significantly subaverage intellectual function individually administered IQ test of approximately 70 or below associated with other deficits or impairments in such areas as communication, self-care, and social skills.

    You Raising Your Child Michael F. Roizen 2010

  • But there is general agreement that it is significantly subaverage intellectual function individually administered IQ test of approximately 70 or below associated with other deficits or impairments in such areas as communication, self-care, and social skills.

    You Raising Your Child Michael F. Roizen 2010

  • Darick Walker's attorneys say executing him May 20 would be unconstitutional because of his subaverage intellectual functioning and because of conflicting testimony of two eyewitnesses in his case.

    Attorneys seek to block Va. killer Darick Walker's execution 2010

  • But there is general agreement that it is significantly subaverage intellectual function individually administered IQ test of approximately 70 or below associated with other deficits or impairments in such areas as communication, self-care, and social skills.

    You Raising Your Child Michael F. Roizen 2010

  • But there is general agreement that it is significantly subaverage intellectual function individually administered IQ test of approximately 70 or below associated with other deficits or impairments in such areas as communication, self-care, and social skills.

    You Raising Your Child Michael F. Roizen 2010

  • Everyone wallowed in that subaverage world except the lucky few.

    American Assassin Vince Flynn 2010

  • (Sheldon, 1982) For example, Rhode Island (Gen. Laws, 40.1-22-3 (5)) defines a mentally retarded person as one "with significant subaverage general intellectual functioning two (2) standard deviations below the normal...."

    Archive 2008-04-01 Jim Horn 2008

  • (Sheldon, 1982) For example, Rhode Island (Gen. Laws, 40.1-22-3 (5)) defines a mentally retarded person as one "with significant subaverage general intellectual functioning two (2) standard deviations below the normal...."

    A Pre-K Test for Giftedness and Other Crimes Against Nature Jim Horn 2008

  • Perhaps you sleep fine as this is merely a result of a subaverage IQ.

    Think Progress » Samuel Alito’s America 2005

  • Not sure that you need to subaverage for locations.

    Underground Problems with Mann-Holes « Climate Audit 2006

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