typical
pronunciation
How to pronounce typical in British English:
UK [ˈtɪpɪkl]
How to pronounce typical in American English:
US [ˈtɪpɪkl]
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- Adjective:
- exhibiting the qualities or characteristics that identify a group or kind or category
- of a feature that helps to distinguish a person or thing
- conforming to a type
Word Origin
- typical (adj.)
- c. 1600, "symbolic, emblematic," from Medieval Latin typicalis "symbolic," from Late Latin typicus "of or pertaining to a type," from Greek typikos, from typos "impression" (see type (n.)). Sense of "characteristic" is first recorded 1850. Related: Typically.
Synonym
Example
- 1. But senegal is not a typical muslim country .
- 2. The typical ceo is precisely equipped to deal with emergencies and digging out .
- 3. In fact half a second to two seconds is the typical duration of conscious experience .
- 4. A typical example is larry king .
- 5. Such pragmatism is typical of ms hermann .