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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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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.
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.
Definition of typical adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
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.
There are six meanings listed in OED's entry for the adjective typical. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.
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.
TYPICAL meaning: 1 : normal for a person, thing, or group average or usual; 2 : happening in the usual way
having all the qualities you expect a particular person, object, place, etc to have: typical German food. This style of painting is typical of Monet. Fewer examples. They plan to recreate a typical English village in Japan. It's typical of Jenny to be late.
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.
