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Adjective: typical  ti-pi-kul
  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"
     
  2. Of a feature that helps to distinguish a person or thing
    "that is typical of you!";
    - distinctive
     
  3. Conforming to a type
    "the typical (or normal) American"; "typical teenage behaviour"

See also: characteristic, classic, emblematic, exemplary, normal, regular, representative, true, typic, typicality, veritable

Antonym: untypical

Encyclopedia: Typical