definition of typical in English from the Oxford dictionary (2023)

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typical

Pronunciation: /ˈtɪpɪkl/

adjective

1having the distinctive qualities of a particular type of person or thing: a typical day a typical example of 1930s art deco typical symptoms

More example sentences

Unfortunately, this is hardly a typical example of the quality available in pubs.
He has quality, is a typical modern player and has great technical ability.
What is remarkable about those four, pretty typical examples is that they were all spoken in one day in late April.
The most typical examples were the realignment of candidacy lists in Kowloon East and Kowloon West.
Your spurious example of a woman with friends in Switzerland is a typical example of muddying the waters.
One recent government decision is a typical example of ideological nonsense.
Other typical symptoms include muscle pain and aching on minimal exercise, as well as mood and sleep disturbance.
The situation in Hull is a typical example of why the Government announced earlier this week a major crackdown on truancy.
In case you are not a regular browser of the business section of your local bookstore, let me describe a typical example of the genre.
Eliecer and his family are an example of a typical Columbian coffee family.
Since he did not develop the typical symptoms, he thought the test might have been a false positive.
It is a typical example of the absurdly piecemeal nature of road planning in Britain since the dawn of the mass motoring area.
The symptoms of bird flu in people vary from typical flu symptoms to eye infections and pneumonia.
So it is important to be attentive to typical symptoms such as sudden dizziness or headaches.
Debt experts have claimed she is a typical example of people who have been caught out by the boom in easy credit.
So what we have is just a typical example of a publisher claiming credit for something he had nothing to do with.
The development of industrial zones is a typical example of how the the national resources have been misused.
The diagnosis of MI was based on typical clinical symptoms, ECG changes and enzyme elevations.
This is a typical example of arthritic degeneration of the lower cervical, mid thoracic and the lumbar regions of the spine.
Symptoms have ranged from conjunctivitis to typical flu-like symptoms.

Synonyms

representative, classic, quintessential, archetypal, model, prototypical, stereotypical;

distinctive, distinguishing, particular

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normal, average, ordinary, standard, regular, routine, run-of-the-mill, stock, orthodox, conventional, predictable, unsurprising, unremarkable, unexceptional

informalbog-standard

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1.1 characteristic of a particular person or thing: he brushed the incident aside with typical good humour how typical of Iris to think of such a detail

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The sociodemographic characteristics were typical of patients seen at this hospital.
This variation in the supposed identity of principal characters is typical of mythology.
His character is formed by a sense of honour and duty typical of the baroque hero.
EMC may well have offered sweet deals to the few affected customers but that type of behavior is typical of a large vendor.
On the floor of the wreck are the usual bits of debris, typical of the general litter found around a boiler-room.
The Topography of Terror catalogue is typical of the well-paid neglect seen in the memorial as a whole.
So typical of these yokels to make such a tasteless error of judgment.
The organisation of this festival of fun in the middle of winter is typical of the resilient people of Blackball.
Connor goes into battle armed with some cool weaponry, which is pretty typical sci-fi fare.
The Dolby Digital 5.1 soundtrack is pretty typical comedy fare, mainly focusing on the front soundstage.
We both stood up, and in his most typical fashion, Major Lee gave me a hearty salute.
While that sounds like typical movie fare, remember whom the actor is that plays Pete.
The Senators' last game, in all too typical fashion, had ended in a loss.
In his typical ad hominem fashion, Jarvis attacks Levy for being a white male.
I was, however, expecting your typical romantic chick flick with a happy ending.
Victor's son Philip said his father showed typical modesty when accepting the award.
Her rose-colored view of the Castro regime is typical of a particular social milieu.
That would be typical of the politically correct party that he represents.
In typical Top Model form, the answer to this is to badger and bully the girl to toeing the line.
It was cold as hell out, which is typical for Minnesota in January.

Synonyms

characteristic, in character, in keeping, to be expected, usual, normal, par for the course, predictable, true to form, true to type;

customary, habitual;

proverbial

informal… all over

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1.2 informal showing the characteristics expected of or popularly associated with a particular person or thing: you really are a typical journalist

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In typical British tradition, the stands around the ground are uncovered and at the mercy of the sun.
Not what you would expect of chips from your typical Chinese outlet.
You may already have several ideas about typical British food, but the most popular dish in Britain is curry!
Typical of the breed was Sawyer, who spent four years at Strathclyde in the 1980s.
He spoke in an unfeasibly low voice, with the lyrical and laconic speech so typical of the Jamaicans.
That's typical of Irish folks' ability to turn a plain sentence or phrase into poetry, song or satire.

2representative as a symbol; symbolic: the pit is typical of hell

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The typical model of the family is the nuclear family consisting of two parents and their children.
Our typical farmer cooperative today is built upon a model that uses debt to finance itself.
It expects the typical customer to have an income of half the national average.
The typical soldier of Victorian popular fiction and poetry, Tommy Atkins, had yet to be invented by Kipling.
Our headcount has more than trebled since; and the typical Indian can now expect to live twice as long.
The company is looking for products which will be popular with the typical European housewife rather than tourists.

Derivatives

typicality: Pronunciation: /tɪpɪˈkalɪti/
noun
Example sentences
But it's a story about specific people, and only a half-wit ever reads a story and assumes any character is a typicality, unless it's a type of character they've never come across before.
Since when has typicality been a criterion of historical accuracy?
But when I try to make my language more particular, I see that the life of this place is always emerging beyond expectation or prediction or typicality, that it is unique, given to the world minute by minute, only once, never to be repeated.
It is a mark of the novel's broad, objective narrativity that while the narrator enumerates the story's representative features, the characters themselves have little sense of their typicality.
Participants were interviewed individually and asked to complete three tasks, in this order: the familiarity task just described, a hierarchical sorting task, and a typicality rating task.
We also consider centrality in the scientific taxonomy and four other possible predictors of a fish's typicality: desirability, familiarity to participants, size, and habitat.
When desirability scores for the three trout are set to .40, the correlation between typicality and desirability goes up to .86.
Ethnographies that highlight the historicity, lack of typicality, and internal tensions make generalizations across or among divergent cases quite difficult.
The present findings constitute strong evidence that, for participants with significant experience of a category, typicality is driven more by ideals than by centrality.
Lincoln was to become a hero in the myth that grew out of the times - a most unlikely result to many of his contemporaries who could see only his ordinariness and typicality.
Alternative actions are queued according to typicality.
Analyses of goddess worship argue for the typicality of such phenomena, and their status as emblematic and fundamentally sustaining of the nation.
Shetland has a small population, but this has not distorted the typicality of the figures.
To wine-makers, however, wine faults are specific departures from an acceptable norm, the least quantifiable of which may be a lack of typicality.
Although some reference will be made to other railway companies, typicality is always a problem where reliance is placed on one specific example or locality.
While the essays are finely crafted, and held together by a common theme, at no time is the issue of typicality addressed.
Like all regional historians Bruegel must deal with local particularities and the problem of typicality.
You are raising a question really about typicality.
I cannot therefore present a broad set of types of peasantry as I did for aristocracies, for the problems of typicality are that much greater.
If a participant was unfamiliar with a fish, he did not give it a typicality rating.

Origin

early 17th century: from medieval Latintypicalis, via Latin from Greektupikos, from tupos (see type).

Words that rhyme with typical

atypical, prototypical, stereotypical

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