atypical
not typical; not conforming to the type; irregular; abnormal: atypical behavior; a flower atypical of the species.
Origin of atypical
1- Also a·typ·ic .
Other words from atypical
- a·typ·i·cal·i·ty, noun
- a·typ·i·cal·ly, adverb
Words Nearby atypical
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How to use atypical in a sentence
The two singers Sunday stretched it well beyond two minutes — not atypical at all nowadays.
Mark Cuban had the right idea: It’s time to rethink how we use the national anthem | John Feinstein | February 12, 2021 | Washington PostIt is a totally organic failure, and it is not atypical of soft-coat low-e’s.
Cloudy double-pane windows are to be expected with time | Jeanne Huber | January 11, 2021 | Washington PostThis is one of those atypical trades in that it started out as a retail play, and now institutional types have jumped in.
What the markets want for Christmas: for starters, a trillion in stimulus spending | Bernhard Warner | December 18, 2020 | FortuneHis experience at the hospital — staying in a multi-room suite while under constant monitoring by medical professionals — was itself atypical.
Edge cases, or atypical events, can cause deep-learning systems to stumble because they haven’t been trained to take them into account.
Self-driving cars will hit the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in a landmark A.I. race | jonathanvanian2015 | September 19, 2020 | Fortune
The details of his emerging campaign infrastructure are as atypical as the man himself.
Ben Carson’s Bizarrely Serious, Seriously Bizarre Campaign Crew | Olivia Nuzzi | November 12, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIf 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.
Will US Health Care Follow in China’s Bloody Footsteps? | Daniela Drake | September 21, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIn the Church of England, as a Guardian profile outlined, his dynamism was atypical.
UK’s No 1 Churchman Doubts Existence of God: The Archbishop of Canterbury Thinks Deep When Running With His Dog | Tim Teeman | September 18, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTI think he's so atypical of what a normal 11-year-old is like.
'About a Boy' Star David Walton Is No Hugh Grant, in the Best Way | Kevin Fallon | February 20, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST“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.
The Treatment of Hay Fever | George Frederick LaidlawIt is in this class of atypical gout that hay fever and neurasthenia belong, if they be gouty at all.
The Treatment of Hay Fever | George Frederick LaidlawDo you think your memory of him is atypical, or would you remember all the enlisted men in that crew approximately the same?
Warren Commission (8 of 26): Hearings Vol. VIII (of 15) | The President's Commission on the Assassination of President KennedyWhere skin lesions are atypical it is well to bear in mind the possibility of this curious condition.
Psychotherapy | James J. WalshCancer is therefore defined as an atypical, epithelial new formation.
British Dictionary definitions for atypical
/ (eɪˈtɪpɪkəl) /
not typical; deviating from or not conforming to type
Derived forms of atypical
- atypically, adverb
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