typicaladjective
uk/ˈtɪp.ɪ.kəl/us/ˈtɪp.ɪ.kəl/B1 showing all the characteristics that you would usually expect from a particular group of things:
I must look like the typical tourist with my shorts and my camera.
This kind of hot and spicy food is very typical of the food in the south of the country.
Typical symptoms would include severe headaches, vomiting and dizziness.
disapproving showing all the bad characteristics that you expect from someone or something, often in a way that is annoying:
It's just typical of Dan to spend all that money on the equipment and then lose interest two months later.
"He called at the last minute to say he wasn't coming." "Typical!"
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- The typical lawn mower makes about 90 decibels of noise.
- It's typical of the boss to kick someone when they're down.
- It's a typical country estate with a large house for the owner, farm buildings and estate workers' houses.
- I was your typical lanky teenager.
- She's a typical teenager, coming home late at night and mouthing off to her parents.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Typifying, illustrating and exemplifying
- analogy
- archetype
- be sb all over idiom
- betoken
- by way of idiom
- genre
- hold
- mark
- mirror
- Mr
- Mrs
- quintessential
- representative
- stand
- trademark
- true
- trust
- trust sb (to do sth)! idiom
- typically
- typify
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Serious and unpleasant