Kooky and Typical

Kooky

Kooky adjective - Different from the ordinary in a way that causes curiosity or suspicion.
Usage example: I'm not sure that someone with such kooky ideas on biology should be teaching the subject to high schoolers

Typical is an antonym for kooky.

Typical

Typical adjective - Having or showing the qualities associated with the members of a particular group or kind.
Usage example: typical behavior for a two-year-old

Kooky is an antonym for typical.

Nearby Words: type, typically, typicality

Both words in one sentence

  • It's really saying something when the sanest person on the list is Bill "Spaceman" Lee, the Red Sox junk-ball pitcher who has a bit of a kooky personality but is all and all a fairly typical '60s left-wing activist/hippie—who just happens to have had the meanest eephus pitch of his era.
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