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Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (3)
1. exhibiting the qualities or characteristics that identify a group or kind or category;
- Example: "a typical American girl"
- Example: "a typical suburban community"
- Example: "the typical car owner drives 10,000 miles a year"
- Example: "a painting typical of the Impressionist school"
- Example: "a typical romantic poem"
- Example: "a typical case of arteritis"
2. of a feature that helps to distinguish a person or thing;
- Example: "Jerusalem has a distinctive Middle East flavor"- Curtis Wilkie
- Example: "that is typical of you!"
[syn: distinctive, typical]
3. conforming to a type;
- Example: "the typical (or normal) American"
- Example: "typical teenage behavior"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Typical \Typ"ic*al\, a. [L. typicus, Gr. ?, from ? type: cf. F. typique. See Type.] 1. Of the nature of a type; representing something by a form, model, or resemblance; emblematic; prefigurative. [1913 Webster] The Levitical priesthood was only typical of the Christian. --Atterbury. [1913 Webster] 2. (Nat. Hist.) Combining or exhibiting the essential characteristics of a group; as, a typical genus. [1913 Webster] -- Typ"ic*al*ly, adv. -- Typ"ic*al*ness, n. [1913 Webster]Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
93 Moby Thesaurus words for "typical": absolute, archetypal, categorical, characteristic, classic, classical, classificational, classificatory, common, commonplace, connotative, consummate, conventional, customary, defining, demonstrative, denominative, denotative, designative, diagnostic, differential, distinctive, distinguishing, divisional, divisionary, emblematic, evidential, exemplary, exhibitive, expressive, figural, figurative, general, ideal, identifying, ideographic, idiosyncratic, implicative, in character, in keeping, indicating, indicative, indicatory, individual, meaningful, metaphorical, model, naming, natural, naturalistic, naturistic, normal, orderly, ordinal, ordinary, orthodox, paradigmatic, particular, pathognomonic, peculiar, perfect, precedential, prototypal, quintessential, realistic, regular, representative, run-of-the-mill, sample, semantic, semiotic, signalizing, significant, significative, signifying, special, specific, standard, subdivisional, suggestive, symbolic, symbolistic, symbological, symptomatic, symptomatologic, taxonomic, to be expected, true to form, true to type, typal, typic, unexceptional, usual
