- atypical
- adjective
Date: 1885
not typical ; irregular, unusual <an atypical form of a disease> • atypicality noun • atypically adverb
New Collegiate Dictionary. 2001.
atypical
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atypical — I adjective aberrant, abnormal, anomalous, dissimilar, diverse, exceptional, never the same, nonuniform, unalike, unrepresentative, variable II index anomalous, deviant, different, disordered … Law dictionary
atypical — 1847, from A (Cf. a ) (2) not + TYPICAL (Cf. typical). Related: Atypically … Etymology dictionary
atypical — *abnormal, aberrant Analogous words: *irregular, anomalous, unnatural: divergent, *different : deviating, departing (see SWERVE vb[p]): *exceptional [p]Antonyms: typical: representative Contrasted words: ordinary, * … New Dictionary of Synonyms
atypical — [adj] nonconforming aberrant, abnormal, anomalous, deviant, different, divergent, exceptional, heteroclite, irregular, odd, peculiar, preternatural, strange, unnatural, unrepresentative; concepts 547,564 Ant. conforming, normal, ordinary,… … New thesaurus
atypical — ► ADJECTIVE ▪ not typical. DERIVATIVES atypically adverb … English terms dictionary
atypical — [ā tip′i kəl] adj. not typical; not characteristic; abnormal: also atypic atypically adv … English World dictionary
atypical — adj. atypical of (such behavior was atypical of him) * * * [eɪ tɪpɪk(ə)l] atypical of (such behavior was atypical of him) … Combinatory dictionary
atypical — [[t]e͟ɪtɪ̱pɪk(ə)l[/t]] ADJ GRADED Someone or something that is atypical is not typical of its kind. The economy of the province was atypical because it was particularly small... He was an atypical English schoolboy. Ant: typical … English dictionary
atypical — atypicality, n. atypically, adv. /ay tip i keuhl/, adj. not typical; not conforming to the type; irregular; abnormal: atypical behavior; a flower atypical of the species. Also, atypic. [1880 85; A 6 + TYPICAL] * * * … Universalium
Atypical — Atypic A*typ ic, Atypical A*typ ic*al, a. [Pref. a not + typic, typical.] That has no type; devoid of typical character; irregular; unlike the type. [1913 Webster] || … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
