untypical
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6.2
- adjective
- /ʌnˈtɪpɪkəl/
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atípico
- As the shock of the tragedy passed, an anguished but not untypical pattern of harassment and high school bullying emerged.
Also, the shape of a MUA MUA is rather untypical for asteroids or comets.
- Also, the shape of a MUA MUA is rather untypical for asteroids or comets.
- Like how can it's very untypical to be pro vax but anti woke, like anti Trump but also kind of anti Biden?
Examples
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Summer seemed to have arrived during the day I was gone, which is not untypical of New Orleans.
Fiction book (2001) -
The pattern was not untypical of the American war effort, Taylor remembers.
Academic text (1993) -
This is not untypical of English higher education, which, although diverse, tends to be concentrated outside the major cities and is weakest in the capital.
Academic text (2015) -
In the past, few tribal officers have possessed the requisite skill, incentive, and resources, so the following situation has not been untypical.
Academic text (1991) -
This is not by any means untypical of the international work that parliaments do through their overseas offices or through the CPA and IPU.
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Also, the shape of a MUA MUA is rather untypical for asteroids or comets.
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The invitation extended to me by the American Council of Learned Societies to deliver the Charles Homer Haskins Lecture comes to me quite unexpectedly and even as a surprise, for my background is foreign and untypical (though I have lived in this country for over half a century).
Academic text (1991) -
Though Harris's judgment betrays a not untypical European arrogance vis-à-vis American scholarship, it is somewhat correct.
Academic text (1995) -
It might be argued that our example is untypical and misleading, and we readily concede that inter- or multidisciplinary teaching could amount to more than Muzak.
Academic text (2002) -
Dad was the most untypical Southern gentleman I have known.
Synonyms
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2.2
Not common and different from what people expect
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6.2
Different from what most people do or accept
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5.7
Different from what is usual or expected
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4.2
Not how a person usually behaves
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5.4
Not usual for a person or thing
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6.4
Not typical of a group and does not show what most people think or do
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7.4
Not typical of the other things in a group
Not like most others of the same kind
Not usual or expected
Not usual or what most people expect
Not following the usual or expected pattern in data
Antonyms
How Typical
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word untypical starts with un- meaning 'not' and the rest comes from the common word type, seen in typical, meaning a 'model' or the 'usual' example. So untypical means 'not like the usual', which is why we use it when something is different from the normal.