Definitions for typical
ˈtɪp ɪ kəltyp·i·cal

Princeton's WordNet(3.00 / 2 votes)Rate this definition:

1. typical(adj)

   exhibiting the qualities or characteristics that identify a group or kind or category

   "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"

2. distinctive, typical(adj)

   of a feature that helps to distinguish a person or thing

   "Jerusalem has a distinctive Middle East flavor"- Curtis Wilkie; "that is typical of you!"

3. typical(adj)

   conforming to a type

   "the typical (or normal) American"; "typical teenage behavior"

Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. typical(Adjective)

   Capturing the overall sense of a thing

   Etymology: From typicalis, from typicus, from τυπικός, from τύπος; see typic and -al, and type.

2. typical(Adjective)

   characteristically representing something by form or type

   Etymology: From typicalis, from typicus, from τυπικός, from τύπος; see typic and -al, and type.

3. typical(Adjective)

   normal

   Etymology: From typicalis, from typicus, from τυπικός, from τύπος; see typic and -al, and type.

Webster Dictionary(2.50 / 2 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Typical(adj)

   of the nature of a type; representing something by a form, model, or resemblance; emblematic; prefigurative

2. Typical(adj)

   combining or exhibiting the essential characteristics of a group; as, a typical genus

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1. Typical

   Typical is a live album by Peter Hammill, recorded in 1992 and released in 1999. It is a double CD and was released on Hammill's own Fie! label. The album was recorded at nine concerts in Austria, Germany, the Netherlands and Italy.

Entomology(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Typical

   the normal or usual form of a species; agreeing with the type form.

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'typical' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2131

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'typical' in Written Corpus Frequency: #2696

3. Adjectives Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'typical' in Adjectives Frequency: #280

How to pronounce typical?

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of typical in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of typical in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of typical in a Sentence

1. Bernie Sanders:

   Unfortunately, the idea of Medicare for All on top of the problems that were facing right now is kind of the typical government answer: more centralized governance from Washington. Thats the whole problem in the first place, massively.

2. Lois Greenfield:

   I shoot just one moment at a time. ... These moments are beneath the threshold of perception, it's often a moment when (the dancers are) falling, or they're going up, or two people are about to touch or something like that. Those moments are more expressive than the typical dance photo of someone in a perfect position on the ground or in the air.

3. Heidi Beirich:

   At the heart of this is a complaint that the federal government owns so much land, and that feeling is typical in a lot of western states, but that land doesn't belong to them. It belongs to all of us and the government is working to preserve it.

4. Kenneth White:

   I think it has to be evaluated in the context of the entire investigation ; it's just one part of the story, some of the technical critiques around how the forensics were performed and what data were and were not analyzed are fair, but this is in no way a' typical' phone hacking case, if there is such a thing.

5. Olli Heinonen:

   We see that the buildings are surrounded by berms; they are a distance from each other. This is a typical design for a site that works with high explosives, i think there are serious questions to be asked [of] the Iranian government. Most likely IAEA should have access to this site.

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