typical

Capturing the overall sense of a thing.

Adjective

  1. Capturing the overall sense of a thing.

    Antonyms: atypical

  2. Characteristically representing something by form, group, idea or type.
    • Compare this with, for instance, the heights of adult humans. They certainly lie within half an order of magnitude from a mean of about 1.7 m, being within the interval 5.4–0.54 m (18–1.8 ft). It is obvious from our...

    Antonyms: atypical

  3. Normal, average; to be expected.
    • Also perpetual is the practice of extending greetings and best wishes for a happy and prosperous New Year. The most typical traditional greeting is gong xi fa cai (for prosperity). And it certainly has been the most...
    • 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. - 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal...

    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 plain plain vanilla quotidian

    Antonyms: atypical

  4. Of a lower taxon, containing the type of the higher taxon.
    • Celticecis species are definitely known only from the typical subgenus of Celtis, distributed through much of the Holarctic Region. - 2013 September 9, Raymond G. Gagné, John C. Moser, “The North American gall midges...

    Antonyms: atypical

Origin

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.

Forms

more typical most typical typicall

Related

typal type typic gestalt gist resemblance emblematic prefigurative distinctive

Derived

antitypical chronotypical etypical geotypical homotypical hypertypical ideal-typical intertypical isotypical metatypical morphotypical neurotypical nontypical normotypical polytypical serotypical subtypical supertypical typical antipsychotic typical bandicoot typical bush warbler typicality typically typicalness

Noun

  1. Anything that is typical, normal, or standard.
    • Antipsychotic drugs can be divided into typicals and atypicals.
    • Among the moths, typicals were more common than melanics.

Forms

typicals typicall