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Definitions of typical
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conforming to a type; " the typical ( or normal) American"; " typical teenage behavior"
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Symbolic; representative of a class; showing the characteristics of its group; like others of its kind.
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Combining or exhibiting the essential characteristics of a group; as, a typical genus.
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Pertaining to a type; characteristic.
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A specimen conforming to type or primary example ; exhibiting in a marked degree the essential characteristics of genus or species.
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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"
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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!"
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Typically.
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Having the nature or character of a type; symbolical; characteristic.
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Emblematic; figurative; indicative rather than positive; in bot., & c., applied to a specimen which has eminently the characteristics of the species, or to a species having the characteristies of an order; representing something future by a form, model, or resemblance.
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Emblematic; figurative; exhibiting prominently the characteristics of a group. See Type. Typic fever, one that is regular in its attacks.
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Of the nature of a type; representing something by a form, model, or resemblance; emblematic; prefigurative.
Antonyms for typical
eerie, subjective, idiomatic, freak, unique, unusual, jolting, transcendent, paradigmatic, especial, deviant, untypical, deviate, outlandish, individualized, exceptional, prodigious, irregular, abnormal, archetypal, strange, atypical, outrageous, peculiar, nonrepresentative, oddball, unknown, uncanny, unfamiliar, uncommon, infrequent, unrepresentative, jarring, spookish, unwonted, jaw-dropping, wonderful, fabulous, offbeat, quaint, astounding, aberrated, spooky, kooky, individual, awful, extraordinary, wacky, curious, definitive, personal, quintessential, magical, idiosyncratic, remarkable, stupefying, private, portentous, Queerish, haunting, personalized, anomalous, unearthly, classic, sublime, singular, weird, nonconformist, model, shocking, patented, miraculous, noteworthy, eccentric, monstrous, particular, distinctive, exceeding, unexpected, unnatural, preternatural, amazing, privy, fantastic, stunning, wild, Aberrational, eye-opening, off-the-wall, freakish, textbook, bizarro, unprecedented, marvelous, bizarre, unpredictable, cranky, unconventional, phenomenal, supernatural, erratic, flabbergasting, special, way out, surprising, aberrant, wondrous, devious, funky, dumbfounding, astonishing, off-kilter, awesome, extraordinaire, uncharacteristic, outre, transcendental, blindsiding, stupendous, startling, weirdo, unaccustomed, superhuman, out-of-the-way, creepy, unorthodox, funny, crazy, exemplary, kinky, spaced-out, screwy, far-out, odd, uncustomary, rare, staggering, quirky, supernormal.
Quotes of typical
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The bad guys are not typical they are not just bad, they are interesting. They might be good or bad.
– Jan de Bont -
I was a typical farm boy. I liked the farm. I enjoyed the things that you do on a farm, go down to the drainage ditch and fish, and look at the crawfish and pick a little cotton.
– Sam Donaldson -
Being a typical Pisces, I might have experienced mood shifts, but I don't remember any depression, or needing to do anything, or to have someone bring me out of being depressed.
– Julius Erving -
I don't really have a favorite bass player. I listen to a lot of bluegrass. But then again, I'm not a typical bluegrass bass player. I was really into the Grateful Dead, and I still am- I don't listen to them too much, but for me they are a big influence.
– Mike Gordon -
Are we changing the idea of what beauty is? Let's hope so. I'm not the typical Hollywood beauty. Let's hope we're looking at the insides of people a little more.
– Anne Heche -
Any corporate policy and plan which is typical of the industry is doomed to mediocrity. Where this is not so, it should be possible to demonstrate that all other competitors are at a distinct disadvantage.
– Bruce Henderson -
It's typical of record companies. They sign you because you're unique, and then they want to put you in a mold so they can sell records.
– Al Jourgensen -
I went to an all -girls pre school where everyone went off to Harvard or Yale, and I had zero interest in doing so. I think they thought I was on drugs. There was a neighboring all -boys school, so we'd get together and do dumb things. It was your typical Catholic -American upbringing.
– Katherine Moennig -
It was just a typical London flat, but it was in a great neighborhood. It was across from the Playboy Club, diagonally. From one balcony you could read the time from Big Ben, and from the other balcony you could watch the bunnies go up and down.
– Harry Nilsson -
Oh, absolutely, it felt more serious than your typical job. One of the things that got us through how difficult the shooting actually was was that we are telling a real story.
– John C. Reilly -
If I'm going to do blues, it's going to be a typical Jimmy Rushing record.
– Jimmy Rushing -
I have a nervous breakdown in the film and in one scene I get to stand at the top of the stairs waving an empty sherry bottle which is, of course, a typical scene from my daily life, so isn't much of a stretch.
– Emma Thompson -
I thought he was an interesting central figure, central character, one who is definitely not your typical central character figure in a film, who's easy to like. He's not easy to like. It forces you to involve yourself with what's going on.
– Patrick Warburton -
Well, it was a typical meeting with the President. He was very gracious, very outgoing.
– Lew Wasserman -
I knew Childress was going to help me because my crew told me on the radio. I really appreciate what Richard did, but that is typical of people in this sport.
– Cale Yarborough
Usage examples for typical
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“ These are only a few; but they are typical ”
– A Wanderer in Paris by E. V. Lucas -
“ One case of this I will mention, which is typical of many. ”
– The Child of the Dawn by Arthur Christopher Benson -
“ Personally speaking, he presented a remarkable contrast to the typical British farmer. ”
– The Legacy of Cain by Wilkie Collins -
“ Isn't he a typical California labor man? ”
– The Native Son by Inez Haynes Irwin -
“ Both of them are typical examples of another phase of tuberculosis that is interesting to realize. ”
– Psychotherapy by James J. Walsh -
“ The author has thus given an extreme case, but it is a typical and a true one, the actual experience of a person who related the circumstances to him. ”
– The Pearl of India by Maturin M. Ballou -
“ Let critics, observing always who speaks and in what spirit he speaks, try to improve a word in a typical passage of Shakespeare. ”
– Platform Monologues by T. G. Tucker -
“ The colouring is subdued but radiant with sunlight, and few pictures are as typical of the master's hand. ”
– Great Masters in Painting: Perugino by George C. Williamson -
“ That on the south side, borne on huge corbels, has in front an arcade of seven round arches, resting on round shafts with typical Manoelino caps. ”
– Portuguese Architecture by Walter Crum Watson -
“ " Well, well, it is a sad case, and very typical of many which come in my way. ”
– Round the Red Lamp Being Facts and Fancies of Medical Life by Arthur Conan Doyle -
“ But it is typical of the whole detachment and distinction of his mind that for this abstract ideal he was willing to strengthen the heir of the king whom he had tried to exclude. ”
– A Short History of England by G. K. Chesterton -
“ And it is typical of him to forget that sort of thing. ”
– Acres of Diamonds by Russell H. Conwell -
“ This is a typical instance of the way in which the themes are used. ”
– The Perfect Wagnerite A Commentary on the Niblung's Ring by George Bernard Shaw -
“ His knowledge and methods cannot be taken as typical however, because his intellectual level was considerably above the average in the colony. ”
– Medicine in Virginia, 1607-1699 by Thomas P. Hughes -
“ There was a man who to all appearance was a typical English gentleman, proud, sensitive of his honour, in every action which came before the world a right- dealing and a right- doing man. ”
– The Betrayal by E. Phillips Oppenheim -
“ I remember one such expedition which is typical of many. ”
– Indian Boyhood by [AKA Ohiyesa], Charles A. Eastman -
“ He was very yellow, had long black hair, gold spectacles and a top hat; he was a typical Japanese, but he spoke English perfectly. ”
– The Note-Books of Samuel Butler by Samuel Butler -
“ In that respect, I fancied, she was typical of a large class of women- that class that thinks a doctor is a magician, or should be. ”
– The Blue Germ by Martin Swayne -
“ The Queen's Megaron may be taken as typical ”
– The Sea-Kings of Crete by James Baikie -
“ It's a typical woman's answer. ”
– Nan Sherwood on the Mexican Border by Annie Roe Carr