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typical (iou)



typical adjective. E17.
[medieval Latin typicalis from late Latin typicus: see TYPIC, -AL1.]
Symbolic; = TYPIC adjective 1. E17.
Typographical. Now rare or obsolete. L18.
Serving as a characteristic example; representative. M19.
G. Battiscombe Gabriele remained indelibly Italian, a typical Neopolitan. She A typical day started with breakfast of cold, lumpy porridge.
b. Biology. That is the type of the genus, family, etc. M19.
c. Medicine. Of a fever: = TYPIC adjective 2. Now rare or obsolete. M19.
Characteristic of or serving to distinguish a type. Also, conforming to expected (esp. undesirable) behaviour, attitudes, etc. M19.
J. Braine It struck me as typical of my father-in-law that he hadn't sent anyone to meet me. M. Girouard Its mixture of symmetry and irregularity was..typical of the 'Queen Anne' movement.
typi'cality noun = typicalness M19.
typically adverb (a) symbolically; (b) representatively; characteristically: E17.
typicalness noun the quality of being typical, esp. symbolic character M17.