TYP

Adjective

typical (comparative more typical, superlative most typical)

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 three examples—the height of a person, household income in the United States, and...2010, Göran Grimvall, “Chapter 1: Numbers”, in Quantify! A Crash Course in Smart Thinking, Johns Hopkins University Press, →ISBN

   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 appropriate one since China in late 1978 denounced the political upheaval of the...1989 February 6 [1989 February 4], “Spring Festival”, in Daily Report: China, number 023, sourced from Beijing CHINA DAILY p 4, →ISSN, →OCLC, National Affairs, page 30, column 1

   Synonyms:

   customary, mundane, ordinary, average, medial, basic, bog-standard, common, commonplace, common-and-garden

   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 (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) of hackberries (Cannabaceae: Celtis spp.)”, in Memoirs of the American Entomological...

   Antonyms:

   atypical

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