typical
typi·cal (tip′i kəl)
adjective
- serving as a type; symbolic
- having or showing the characteristics, qualities, etc. of a kind, class, or group so fully as to be a representative example
- of or belonging to a type or representative example; characteristic
Etymology: ML typicalis < L typicus < Gr typikos
typical
modif.
Antonyms
Preposition: of
- bog: They are typical of western bogs within the drumlin belt of Northern Ireland, being elongated and very irregular in shape.
- era: In early 19th century, romantic opera gave more dimension to the extreme emotions which were typical of that era.
- habitat: The White-legged Damselfly is a rare British species but is typical of the habitat in the upper Adur area.
- kind: These are typical of the kinds of changes found in the broader range of chronic epileptic foci.
- period: The gravestone is long and somber, typical of the period.
- type: Regulation 70 of Table A is typical of this type of provision.
Modifies a noun
- example: Typical example of under exposed image showing limited tonal range.
- symptom: Typical symptoms include loss of appetite, weight loss, a general feeling of poor health, jaundice, fever, fatigue and weakness.
- scenario: A typical scenario is to receive a diskette from an innocent source that contains a boot disk virus.
- Apr: The personal loans online service has a range of loans from 6.2 to 12.8 % with a typical APR of 7.5 % .
- fashion: Some challenged them, saying in a typical British fashion: May I help you?
- module: The coverage of the book embraces all of a typical first year maths module, making it ideal for core text adoption.
Modifying Another Word
- fairly: The building is a fairly typical rural west Suffolk church.
- pretty: All pages are different, but this strikes us as pretty typical of the many we have browsed.
- absolutely: Summary: Same old, same old Review: My experience has been absolutely typical of everyone else's.
- entirely: It was also entirely typical of his appetite to communicate and influence that for eight years he presented Scottish Television's This Wonderful World.
- quite: In fact, it was quite typical for an adult.
- so: I hope I was able to deliver a delightful and ever so typical sixteen year old's response.
Used with adjective complement
New York is the meeting place of the peoples, the only city where you can hardly find a typical American.
Cambridge has always tried to be more typical and less exotic than the other place.
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