exhibiting the qualities or characteristics that identify a group or kind or category; a typical American girl; a typical suburban community; the typical car owner drives 10, 000 miles a year; a painting typical of the Impressionist school; a typical romantic poem; a typical case of arteritis'

of a feature that helps to distinguish a person or thing; Jerusalem has a distinctive Middle East flavor- Curtis Wilkie; that is typical of you!

[ Syn: distinctive ]

conforming to a type; the typical (or normal) American; typical teenage behavior'