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- Dictionarytypical/ˈtɪpɪkl/
adjective
- 1. having the distinctive qualities of a particular type of person or thing: "a typical day" Similar Opposite
- 2. representative as a symbol; symbolic: "the pit is typical of hell"
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The meaning of TYPICAL is combining or exhibiting the essential characteristics of a group. How to use typical in a sentence. Synonym Discussion of Typical.
1. Exhibiting the qualities, traits, or characteristics that identify a kind, class, group, or category: a typical suburban community. 2. Of or relating to a representative specimen; characteristic or distinctive. 3. Conforming to a type: a composition typical of the baroque period.
showing all the bad characteristics that you expect from someone or something, often in a way that is annoying: It's just typical of Dan to spend all that money on the equipment and then lose interest two months later. "He called at the last minute to say he wasn't coming." "Typical!" More examples. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases.
To be typical is to be of a type, meaning that a person or thing has the same characteristics of everyone or everything else in the group, like a typical student, trying to talk the teacher out of giving homework over break.
You use typical to describe someone or something that shows the most usual characteristics of a particular type of person or thing, and is therefore a good example of that type. He was brought up as a typical American child.
of the nature of or serving as a type or representative specimen. Synonyms: usual, stock, average, normal. conforming to a particular type. Biology. exemplifying most nearly the essential characteristics of a higher group in natural history, and forming the type: the typical genus of a family.
Typical definition: Exhibiting the qualities, traits, or characteristics that identify a kind, class, group, or category.
If you say that something is typical of a person, situation, or thing, you are criticizing them or complaining about them and saying that they are just as bad or disappointing as you expected them to be.
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Definition of typical adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
