adj
Meaning 1
Capturing the overall sense of a thing.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: atypical
Standard Lemma guide
typical
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/ˈtɪp.ɪ.kəl/
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[ˈtɪp.ɪ.kəɫ]
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[ˈtɪp.ɪ.kɫ̩]
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adj
Meaning 2
Characteristically representing something by form, group, idea or type.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: atypical
adj
Meaning 3
Normal, average; to be expected.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: customary, mundane, ordinary, average, medial, basic, bog-standard, common, commonplace, common-and-garden, common-or-garden, congruent, consistent, conventional, everyday, expected, garden variety, improminent, natural, normal, par for the course, par, plain, plain vanilla, quotidian, regular, routine, run-of-the-mill, standard, standard issue, typical, unexceptional, unremarkable, unstrange, usual, vulgar, wakeaday, workaday
Antonyms: atypical
adj
Meaning 4
Of a lower taxon, containing the type of the higher taxon.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biology, natural-sciences, taxonomy
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: atypical
noun
Meaning 5
Anything that is typical, normal, or standard.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- Antipsychotic drugs can be divided into typicals and atypicals.
- Among the moths, typicals were more common than melanics.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective
Meaning 6
exhibiting the qualities or characteristics that identify a group or kind or category
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- a typical American girl
- a typical suburban community
- the typical car owner drives 10,000 miles a year
- a painting typical of the Impressionist school
- a typical romantic poem
- a typical case of arteritis
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: atypical
adjective satellite
Meaning 7
of a feature that helps to distinguish a person or thing- Curtis Wilkie
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- Jerusalem has a distinctive Middle East flavor
- that is typical of you!
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: distinctive
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 8
conforming to a type
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- the typical (or normal) American
- typical teenage behavior
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
From Late Latin typicalis, from Latin typicus (“typical”), from Ancient Greek τυπικός (tupikós, “of or pertaining to a type, conformable, typical”), from τύπος (túpos, “mark, impression, type”), equivalent to typic + -al and type + -ical.
Across languages
Translations
56 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: نَمُوذَجِيّ (namūḏajiyy) — capturing the overall sense of a thing
- Arabic: مِثَالِيّ (miṯāliyy) — capturing the overall sense of a thing
- Asturian: típicu — capturing the overall sense of a thing
- Bashkir: хас (xas) — capturing the overall sense of a thing
- Belarusian: тыпо́вы (typóvy) — capturing the overall sense of a thing
- Belarusian: тыпі́чны (typíčny) — capturing the overall sense of a thing
- Bulgarian: типи́чен (tipíčen) — capturing the overall sense of a thing
- Catalan: típic — capturing the overall sense of a thing
- Chinese Mandarin: 典型的 (diǎnxíng de) — capturing the overall sense of a thing
- Czech: typický — capturing the overall sense of a thing
- Danish: typisk — capturing the overall sense of a thing
- Dutch: typisch — capturing the overall sense of a thing
- Esperanto: tipa — capturing the overall sense of a thing
- Esperanto: tipika — capturing the overall sense of a thing
- Estonian: tüüpiline — capturing the overall sense of a thing
- Finnish: tyypillinen — capturing the overall sense of a thing
- French: typique — capturing the overall sense of a thing
- French: représentatif — capturing the overall sense of a thing
- Galician: típico — capturing the overall sense of a thing
- German: typisch — capturing the overall sense of a thing
- Hindi: प्ररूपी (prarūpī) — capturing the overall sense of a thing
- Hungarian: tipikus — capturing the overall sense of a thing
- Hungarian: jellemző — capturing the overall sense of a thing
- Icelandic: dæmigerður — capturing the overall sense of a thing
- Icelandic: týpískur — capturing the overall sense of a thing
- Irish: tipiciúil — capturing the overall sense of a thing
- Italian: tipico — capturing the overall sense of a thing
- Japanese: 典型的な (tenkeiteki na) — capturing the overall sense of a thing
- Korean: 전형적 (jeonhyeongjeok) — capturing the overall sense of a thing
- Latvian: tipisks — capturing the overall sense of a thing
- Low German: tyypsch — capturing the overall sense of a thing
- Iranian Persian: مَعْمولی (ma'muli) — capturing the overall sense of a thing
- Iranian Persian: تیپیک (tipik) — capturing the overall sense of a thing
- Polish: typowy — capturing the overall sense of a thing
- Portuguese: típico — capturing the overall sense of a thing
- Russian: типи́чный (tipíčnyj) — capturing the overall sense of a thing
- Slovak: typický — capturing the overall sense of a thing
- Spanish: típico — capturing the overall sense of a thing
- Swedish: typisk — capturing the overall sense of a thing
- Tatar: типик (tipik) — capturing the overall sense of a thing
- Ukrainian: типо́вий (typóvyj) — capturing the overall sense of a thing
- Vietnamese: điển hình — capturing the overall sense of a thing
- Welsh: nodweddiadol — capturing the overall sense of a thing
- Yiddish: טיפּיש (tipish) — capturing the overall sense of a thing
- Bulgarian: характе́рен (haraktéren) — characteristically representing something
- German: typisch — characteristically representing something
- Hindi: प्ररूपी (prarūpī) — characteristically representing something
- Irish: tipiciúil — characteristically representing something
- Russian: характе́рный (xaraktérnyj) — characteristically representing something
- Swedish: utpräglad — characteristically representing something
- Bulgarian: типи́чен (tipíčen) — normal; to be expected
- German: typisch — normal; to be expected
- German: gewöhnlich — normal; to be expected
- Irish: gnáth- — normal; to be expected
- Spanish: típico — normal; to be expected
- Spanish: clásico — normal; to be expected
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