Entry Word: typical

Function: adjective

Meaning: 1 having or showing the qualities associated with the members of a particular group or kind <typical behavior for a two-year-old>

Synonyms archetypal, average, characteristic, normal, regular, representative, standard

Related Words common, conventional, customary, ordinary, usual, wonted; expected, familiar, habitual, predictable, routine, unexceptional, unremarkable; predominant, preponderant

Near Antonyms uncommon, unconventional, uncustomary, unusual, unwonted; distinctive, especial, exceptional, extraordinary, infrequent, noteworthy, rare, remarkable, singular, special, unexpected, unfamiliar, unique, unpredictable; eccentric, idiosyncratic, nonconformist, peculiar, unknown, unorthodox; curious, funny, odd, queer, strange; bizarre, fantastic, far-out, freak, freakish, out-of-the-way, outrageous, outré, unnatural, weird, wild

Antonyms aberrant, abnormal, anomalous, atypical, deviant, irregular, nonrepresentative, nontypical

2 serving to identify as belonging to an individual or group <when I asked what he had learned in school that day, he gave me the typical answer of teenagers: “I donʼt know”> — see characteristic 1