typical
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.
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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”synonyms:characteristictypical or distinctiverepresentativeserving to represent or typifytrueconforming to definitive criteriaantonyms:atypicalnot representative of a group, class, or typeuncharacteristicdistinctive and not typicalunrepresentativenot exemplifying a class
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of a feature that helps to distinguish a person or thing
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conforming to a type“the typical (or normal) American”“typical teenage behavior”synonyms:normalconforming with or constituting a norm or standard or level or type or social norm; not abnormal
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