typically
/ˈtɪpɪkli
/adverb
1In most cases; usually: the quality of work is typically very high the illness typically lasts five to ten days...
- Winter annuals can typically be sprayed from late September to early December, weather permitting.
- Corn grown following soybeans typically yields about 10 percent more than continuous corn.
- Typically, retailers overestimate the share of their customers ' business they have.
1.1 [often as submodifier] With the distinctive qualities of a particular type of person or thing: typically masculine social roles a typically English village wedding...
- The opera's plot is the typically confusing farrago of unrequited love, disguises, nobility pitted against treachery, and everything set right at the very last minute.
- Opening with the typically self-doubting complexities, his 'Mystery Song #1' sounds like Eldorado-era Neil Young in places.
- A typically flavoursome, well-priced Chardonnay from one of Chile's best wineries, this shows restrained oak and notes of citrus fruit and white peach.
1.2In a way that is characteristic of a particular person or thing: David lit up many gatherings with his typically forthright comments [sentence adverb]: typically, she showed no alarm...
- Typically, it was from a maul that Combe scored the crucial try which clinched their victory.
- Meyer reports typically, "Having lunch after a game of tennis, Condi agreed that Putin was an attractive man who walks like an athlete."
- Typically, the Manics are releasing their most personal and least polemical album as the world teeters on its most politically charged precipice for decades.