Typical

Quick meaning: Typical is an adjective meaning Capturing the overall sense of a thing.

Meaning

Capturing the overall sense of a thing.

More Meanings

1. Characteristically representing something by form, group, idea or type.
2. Normal, average; to be expected.
3. (taxonomy) Of a lower taxon, containing the type of the higher taxon.
4. Anything that is typical, normal, or standard.

Example Sentences

Among the moths, typicals were more common than melanics.

Antipsychotic drugs can be divided into typicals and atypicals.

Celticecis species are definitely known only from the typical subgenus of Celtis, distributed through much of the Holarctic Region.

One typical Grecian kiln engorged one thousand muleloads of juniper wood in a single burn. Fifty such kilns would devour six thousand metric tons of trees and brush annually.

Word Forms

• typicall
• typicals

Synonyms for typical

Depending on context, synonyms include customary, mundane, ordinary, average, medial, basic.

Antonyms for typical

Common opposites include atypical, untypical.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include normal, characteristic, true, distinctive, representative, emblematic.

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