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
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.
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Other Word Forms of Typical

Noun

Singular:
typical
Plural:
typicals

Origin of Typical

  • 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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