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US
/ənˈtɪpɪkəɫ/
]
[ UK /ʌntˈɪpɪkəl/ ]
[ UK /ʌntˈɪpɪkəl/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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not representative of a group, class, or type
atypical behavior is not the accepted type of response that we expect from children
a class of atypical mosses
How To Use untypical In A Sentence
- Tusking," published in March 1986, was the first of his poems to appear in the TLS: a powerful frightening parable of coloniser and colonised, it is untypical of Imlah's work only in its short lines. Archive 2009-04-01
- Keep in mind that animals are also often traumatized by captivity and display bizarre behavior untypical of their kind unless treated with respect and dignity.
- Always at his best out on the training field, he was said to become increasingly and untypically remote, and he left, after considerable vocal encouragement from Leeds fans, in 1980. Jimmy Adamson obituary
- Her angry outburst was untypical; she's usually very quiet woman.
- Robinson was surprised and a little alarmed at such an untypical gesture.
- As an aristocrat Hartington was not untypical in regarding them as evangelical fanatics who needed restraining.
- It seems possible that the past three or four decades, which have seen such frenetic activity in the salerooms and such an increase in public awareness of the potential monetary value of art and antiques, have been untypical.
- Last Friday's business news was not untypical: the financial news wires now march to the constant drumbeat of corporate malfeasance.
- Anita Loos was in many respects untypical of the screenwriting trade.
- Oak trees work to a seasonal calendar that is not impressed by a few days of untypical sunshine.
