typical

typical
    adj 1: 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" [ant: {atypical}, {untypical}]
    2: 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!" [syn: {distinctive},
       {typical}]
    3: conforming to a type; "the typical (or normal) American";
       "typical teenage behavior"
    

Typical \Typ"ic*al\, a. [L. typicus, Gr. ?, from ? type: cf. F.
   typique. See {Type}.]
   1. Of the nature of a type; representing something by a form,
      model, or resemblance; emblematic; prefigurative.
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            The Levitical priesthood was only typical of the
            Christian.                            --Atterbury.
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   2. (Nat. Hist.) Combining or exhibiting the essential
      characteristics of a group; as, a typical genus.
      [1913 Webster] -- {Typ"ic*al*ly}, adv. --
      {Typ"ic*al*ness}, n.
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93 Moby Thesaurus words for "typical":
      absolute, archetypal, categorical, characteristic, classic,
      classical, classificational, classificatory, common, commonplace,
      connotative, consummate, conventional, customary, defining,
      demonstrative, denominative, denotative, designative, diagnostic,
      differential, distinctive, distinguishing, divisional, divisionary,
      emblematic, evidential, exemplary, exhibitive, expressive, figural,
      figurative, general, ideal, identifying, ideographic,
      idiosyncratic, implicative, in character, in keeping, indicating,
      indicative, indicatory, individual, meaningful, metaphorical,
      model, naming, natural, naturalistic, naturistic, normal, orderly,
      ordinal, ordinary, orthodox, paradigmatic, particular,
      pathognomonic, peculiar, perfect, precedential, prototypal,
      quintessential, realistic, regular, representative,
      run-of-the-mill, sample, semantic, semiotic, signalizing,
      significant, significative, signifying, special, specific,
      standard, subdivisional, suggestive, symbolic, symbolistic,
      symbological, symptomatic, symptomatologic, taxonomic,
      to be expected, true to form, true to type, typal, typic,
      unexceptional, usual