- very typical of something or of somebody’s character
- characteristic of something/somebody Community support of families is characteristic of many societies.
- This is just one example of the rudeness that was so characteristic of him.
- the characteristic features of his style of painting
- She spoke with characteristic enthusiasm.
Extra Examples- a problem that was fairly characteristic of late eighteenth-century society
- his highly characteristic features
- They suffer from many of the environmental problems that are characteristic of inner-city areas.
- With characteristic modesty she insisted on sharing the credit with the whole team.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
- become
- highly
- very
- entirely
- …
- of
Word Originmid 17th cent.: from French caractéristique or medieval Latin characteristicus, from Greek kharaktēristikos, from kharaktēr ‘a stamping tool’.Definitions on the go
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