typicalとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Late Latin typicalis, from Latin typicus (“typical”), from Ancient Greek τυπικός (tupikós, “of または pertaining to a type, conformable, typical”), from τύπος (túpos, “mark, impression, type”), equivalent to typic, type + -al.

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɪpɪkl̩/
• ハイフネーション: typ‧i‧cal

形容詞

typical (comparative more typical, superlative most typical)

1. Capturing the overall sense of a thing.
2. Characteristically representing something by form, group, idea or type.
3. Normal, average; to be expected.
   • 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion‎^[1]:

     One typical Grecian kiln engorged one thousand muleloads of juniper wood in a single burn. Fifty such kilns would devour six thousand metric tons of trees and brush annually.

同意語

• See also Thesaurus:common

反意語

• atypical

派生語

• typicality
• typically
• typicalness

関連する語

• typal
• type
• typic

参考

• gestalt
• gist
• resemblance
• emblematic
• prefigurative
• distinctive

名詞

typical (複数形 typicals)

1. Anything that is typical, normal, or standard.

   Antipsychotic drugs can be divided into typicals and atypicals.

   Among the moths, typicals were more common than melanics.

Further reading

• typical in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• typical in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

アナグラム

• clay pit, claypit