1. representative: having all or most of the characteristics shared by others of the same kind and therefore suitable as an example of it a typical small Midwestern town typical of life in Victorian England
2. characteristic: characteristic of an individual person or thing He evaded the question with typical dexterity.
3. as bad or annoying as usual: in accordance with your worst expectations
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informal
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That's just typical! There's never a cab when you want one.
4. biology resembling others in taxonomic group: describes an organism, species, or genus that has most of the characteristics that identify the larger taxonomic group to which it belongs
[Early 17th century. < medieval Latin typicalis< late Latin typicus< Greek tupikos< tupos "blow, impression"]
