Typical Definition
tĭpĭ-kəl
adjective
Having or showing the characteristics, qualities, etc. of a kind, class, or group so fully as to be a representative example.
Webster's New World
Serving as a type; symbolic.
Webster's New World
Of or belonging to a type or representative example; characteristic.
Webster's New World
Conforming to a type.
A composition typical of the baroque period.
American Heritage
Conforming with what usually happens.
The bus is late again? That's so typical!
American Heritage
Synonyms:
noun
Anything that is typical, normal, or standard.
Antipsychotic drugs can be divided into typicals and atypicals.
Among the moths, typicals were more common than melanics.
Wiktionary
Other Word Forms of Typical
Noun
Singular:
typicalPlural:
typicalsOrigin of Typical
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From Late Latin typicalis, from Latin typicus (“typical"), from Ancient Greek τυπικός (tupikos, “of or pertaining to a type, conformable, typical"), from τύπος (tupos, “mark, impression, type"); see typic and -al, and type.
From Wiktionary
Late Latin typicālis from typicus from Greek tupikos from tupos impression
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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