Antonyms of adj typical

3 senses of typical

Sense 1
typical (vs. atypical) -- (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")

atypical (vs. typical), untypical -- (not representative of a group, class, or type; "a group that is atypical of the target audience"; "a class of atypical mosses"; "atypical behavior is not the accepted type of response that we expect from children")
        => unrepresentative -- (not exemplifying a class; "I soon tumbled to the fact that my weekends were atypical"; "behavior quite unrepresentative (or atypical) of the profession")

Sense 2
distinctive, typical -- (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!")

INDIRECT (VIA characteristic) -> uncharacteristic -- (distinctive and not typical; "a book uncharacteristic of its author")

Sense 3
typical -- (conforming to a type; "the typical (or normal) American"; "typical teenage behavior")

INDIRECT (VIA normal) -> abnormal, unnatural -- (not normal; not typical or usual or regular or conforming to a norm; "abnormal powers of concentration"; "abnormal amounts of rain"; "abnormal circumstances"; "an abnormal interest in food")

Similarity of adj typical

3 senses of typical

Sense 1
typical (vs. atypical) -- (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")
       => emblematic, exemplary, typic -- (being or serving as an illustration of a type; "the free discussion that is emblematic of democracy"; "an action exemplary of his conduct";)
       => representative -- (serving to represent or typify; "representative moviegoers"; "a representative modern play")
       => regular (prenominal), veritable (prenominal) -- (often used as intensifiers; "a regular morass of details"; "a regular nincompoop"; "he's a veritable swine")
       => true -- (conforming to definitive criteria; "the horseshoe crab is not a true crab"; "Pythagoras was the first true mathematician")
          Also See-> characteristic#1

Sense 2
distinctive, typical -- (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!")
       => characteristic (vs. uncharacteristic) -- (typical or distinctive; "heard my friend's characteristic laugh"; "red and gold are the characteristic colors of autumn"; "stripes characteristic of the zebra")

Sense 3
typical -- (conforming to a type; "the typical (or normal) American"; "typical teenage behavior")
       => normal (vs. abnormal) -- (conforming with or constituting a norm or standard or level or type or social norm; not abnormal; "serve wine at normal room temperature"; "normal diplomatic relations"; "normal working hours"; "normal word order"; "normal curiosity"; "the normal course of events")