typical

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Thân thiện

A typical suburban house has a front lawn and a driveway.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Representing the usual or expected characteristics of a group or category: "typical" describes something that possesses the most common or standard features of its type, serving as a representative example.
   • Characteristic of a particular person, thing, or group: It indicates a quality or behavior that is distinctive and expected from a specific source.

Examples of Usage

• Adjective:
  • This is a typical summer day in the region: hot and sunny.
  • His typical response to stress is to go for a long walk.
  • The architecture is typical of the 18th century.

Advanced Usage

• "typical of (someone/something)": used to say that a (often negative) action or characteristic is exactly what you would expect from a particular person or thing.
  • Forgetting your keys is so typical of you.
• "anything but typical": used to emphasize that something is very unusual or not at all standard.
  • Her career path has been anything but typical.

Variants and Related Words

• Typically (adverb): in a way that is characteristic of a type or group; usually.
  • She is typically the first person to arrive.
• Typicality (noun): the quality or state of being typical.
  • Researchers questioned the typicality of the sample group.

Synonyms

• Characteristic: representing a distinctive quality.
• Normal: conforming to a standard or common type.
• Standard: regularly and widely used, or serving as a basis for comparison.
• Representative: serving as a typical example of something.

Antonyms

• Atypical: not representative of a type, group, or class.
• Unusual: not habitually or commonly occurring or done.
• Exceptional: unusual; not typical.

Related Idioms and Phrases

• Par for the course: (idiom) what is normal or expected in a given situation. This idiom is similar in meaning to "typical" in some contexts.
  • Delays are par for the course with this airline.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. conforming to a type
   • the typical (or normal) American
   • typical teenage behavior
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!
3. 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

Từ đồng nghĩa

• distinctive