单词 | typical |
释义 | typical (once / 242 pages) adj When something is typical, it is common, regular, expected — hanging out with friends and playing computer games are typical activities of American teens. To be typical is to be of a type, meaning that a person or thing has the same characteristics of everyone or everything else in the group, like a typical student, trying to talk the teacher out of giving homework over break. Something that is typical is what you can expect, like reading a guidebook about a faraway country you will visit to learn the typical weather and kinds of food you will encounter while you are there. WORD FAMILYtypical: antitypical, atypical, typicality, typically, untypical+/atypical: atypicality, atypically/typicality: untypicality/untypical: untypically USAGE EXAMPLESThe firm says it is more efficient than typical amine compounds used for the purpose. BBC(Jan 03, 2017) “We’ve experienced only a small number of minor incidents, in numbers less than typical,” Boasberg said in response to questions from The Washington Post. Washington Post(Jan 02, 2017) These aren’t your typical protests but are our young democracy’s natural response to an urgent existential threat. Washington Post(Jan 02, 2017) 1adj 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 Syn|Ant characteristic typical or distinctive emblematic, exemplary, typicbeing or serving as an illustration of a type representativeserving to represent or typify regular, veritableoften used as intensifiers trueconforming to definitive criteria atypical, untypical not representative of a group, class, or type uncharacteristicdistinctive and not typical abnormal, unnaturalnot normal; not typical or usual or regular or conforming to a norm unrepresentativenot exemplifying a class 2adj of a feature that helps to distinguish a person or thing that is typical of you! Syn distinctive characteristic typical or distinctive 3adj conforming to a type the typical (or normal) American typical teenage behavior Syn normal conforming with or constituting a norm or standard or level or type or social norm; not abnormal |
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