Typical means what you would expect—a typical suburban town has lots of neat little houses and people. Atypical means outside of type —an atypical suburban town might be populated by zombies in damp caves.
Some common synonyms of typical are natural, normal , and regular. While all these words mean “being of the sort or kind that is expected as usual, ordinary, or average,” typical implies showing all important traits of a type, class, or group and may suggest lack of strong individuality.
A word that has the exact opposite meaning of another word is its antonym.
sole. Antonyms: plural, numerous, combined , collective. Synonyms: single, solitary, only, individual, exclusive, by one’s self, alone, one, singular.
| ordinary average | conventional familiar | plain routine | stock unpretentious | customary commonplace |
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not typical; not conforming to the type; irregular; abnormal : atypical behavior; a flower atypical of the species.
By. in DSM-IV-TR, a category of personality disorders for which there is insufficient evidence for a more specific designation – that is, the person does not meet criteria for one particular personality disorder, but disorder is present.
1 : not typical : irregular, unusual an atypical form of a disease atypical weather for this area.
| abnormal unusual | atypical anomalous | exceptional extraordinary | irregular peculiar | strange aberrant |
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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.
Compare GENERAL; USUAL. Antonyms: abnormal , exceptional, irregular, monstrous, peculiar, rare, singular, uncommon, unprecedented, unusual. Synonyms: common, natural, normal, ordinary, regular, usual.
Types of Antonyms
Examples include: boy — girl, off — on, night — day, entrance — exit, exterior — interior, true — false, dead — alive, push — pull, pass — fail.
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