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Tweet adj. 1. Exhibiting the qualities, traits, or characteristics that identify a kind, class, group, or category: a typical suburban community. 2. Of or relating to a representative specimen; characteristic or distinctive. 3. Conforming to a type: a composition typical of the baroque period. 4. also typ·ic (-ĭk) Of the nature of, constituting, or serving as a type; emblematic. 5. Conforming with what usually happens: The bus is late again? That's so typical! [Late Latin typicālis, from typicus, from Greek tupikos, from tupos, impression.] typi·cal·ly adv. typi·cal·ness, typ′i·cali·ty (-kălĭ-tē) n. |
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