Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having no distinct typical character; not typical; not conformable to the type.
- Producing a loss of typical characters. Dana.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective That has no type; devoid of typical character; irregular; unlike the type.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective that has no
type ; devoid oftypical character;irregular ; unlike the type
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word atypic.
Examples
-
Among the older naturalists, such as Pliny and Aristotle, and even in the older historians, whose scope included natural as well as civil and political history, the atypic and bizarre, and especially the aberrations of form or function of the generative organs, caught the eye most quickly.
-
Among the older naturalists, such as Pliny and Aristotle, and even in the older historians, whose scope included natural as well as civil and political history, the atypic and bizarre, and especially the aberrations of form or function of the generative organs, caught the eye most quickly.
-
The other patients presented a symptomatic vestibularis schwannoma and an atypic meningeoma.
BioMed Central - Latest articles Hendrik Wolff 2010
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.