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non-typical


adjective

  1. of the nature of or serving as a type or representative specimen.
  2. conforming to a particular type.
  3. Biology. exemplifying most nearly the essential characteristics of a higher group in natural history, and forming the type: the typical genus of a family.
  4. characteristic or distinctive: He has the mannerisms typical of his class.
  5. pertaining to, of the nature of, or serving as a type or emblem; symbolic.

adjective

  1. being or serving as a representative example of a particular type; characteristicthe painting is a typical Rembrandt
  2. considered to be an example of some undesirable traitthat is typical of you!
  3. of or relating to a representative specimen or type
  4. conforming to a type
  5. biology having most of the characteristics of a particular taxonomic groupa typical species of a genus

adj.c.1600, “symbolic, emblematic,” from Medieval Latin typicalis “symbolic,” from Late Latin typicus “of or pertaining to a type,” from Greek typikos, from typos “impression” (see type (n.)). Sense of “characteristic” is first recorded 1850. Related: Typically.

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