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atypical

[ ey-tip-i-kuhl ]

adjective

  1. not typical; not conforming to the type; irregular; abnormal:

    atypical behavior; a flower atypical of the species.



atypical

/ eɪˈtɪpɪkəl /

adjective

  1. not typical; deviating from or not conforming to type


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Derived Forms

  • aˈtypically, adverb

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Other Words From

  • atyp·i·cali·ty noun
  • a·typi·cal·ly adverb

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Word History and Origins

Origin of atypical1

First recorded in 1880–85; a- 6 + typical

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Example Sentences

The details of his emerging campaign infrastructure are as atypical as the man himself.

If the doctor had time to work with Li, he might have seen that his back pain was atypical and detected AS in the first visit.

In the Church of England, as a Guardian profile outlined, his dynamism was atypical.

I think he's so atypical of what a normal 11-year-old is like.

“She has a very low back-of-throat tone that not atypical of rock-pop singers,” Purdy says.

In atypical or irregular gout we may have a group of inflammations or functional disturbances in any tissue of the body.

It is in this class of atypical gout that hay fever and neurasthenia belong, if they be gouty at all.

Do you think your memory of him is atypical, or would you remember all the enlisted men in that crew approximately the same?

Where skin lesions are atypical it is well to bear in mind the possibility of this curious condition.

Cancer is therefore defined as an atypical, epithelial new formation.

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