Definition of TYPICAL

typical

Meanings

Plural: typicals

Adjective

  • exhibiting the qualities or characteristics that identify a group or kind or category
    • "a typical American girl"
    • "a typical suburban community"
    • "the typical car owner drives 10,000 miles a year"
    • "a painting typical of the Impressionist school"
    • "a typical romantic poem"
    • "a typical case of arteritis"

Adjective Satellite

  • of a feature that helps to distinguish a person or thing; - Curtis Wilkie
    • "that is typical of you!"
  • conforming to a type
    • "the typical (or normal) American"
    • "typical teenage behavior"

Adj

  • Capturing the overall sense of a thing.
  • Characteristically representing something by form, group, idea or type.
  • Normal, average; to be expected.
  • Of a lower taxon, containing the type of the higher taxon.

Noun

  • Anything that is typical, normal, or standard.

Origin / Etymology

From Late Latin typicalis, from Latin typicus (“typical”), from Ancient Greek τυπικός (tupikós, “of or pertaining to a type, conformable, typical”), from τύπος (túpos, “mark, impression, type”), equivalent to typic + -al and type + -ical.

Synonyms

distinctive

Antonyms

atypical

Scrabble Score: 14

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Words With Friends Score: 16

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