The difference between Conventional and Typical
When used as nouns, conventional means a conventional gilt-edged security, a kind of bond paying the holder a fixed cash payment (or coupon) every six months until maturity, at which point the holder receives the final payment and the return of the principal, whereas typical means anything that is typical, normal, or standard.
When used as adjectives, conventional means pertaining to a convention, as in following generally accepted principles, methods and behaviour, whereas typical means capturing the overall sense of a thing.
check bellow for the other definitions of Conventional and Typical
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Conventional as an adjective:
Pertaining to a convention, as in following generally accepted principles, methods and behaviour.
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Conventional as an adjective:
Ordinary, commonplace.
Examples:
"They wear conventional clothes, eat conventional food, and keep conventional hours."
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Conventional as an adjective:
Banal, trite, hackneyed, unoriginal or clichéd.
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Conventional as a noun (finance):
A conventional gilt-edged security, a kind of bond paying the holder a fixed cash payment (or coupon) every six months until maturity, at which point the holder receives the final payment and the return of the principal.
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Typical as an adjective:
Capturing the overall sense of a thing.
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Typical as an adjective:
Characteristically representing something by form, group, idea or type.
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Typical as an adjective:
Normal, average; to be expected.
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Typical as a noun:
Anything that is typical, normal, or standard.
Examples:
"Antipsychotic drugs can be divided into typicals and atypicals."
"Among the moths, typicals were more common than melanics."