The difference between Typical and Usual

When used as adjectives, typical means capturing the overall sense of a thing, whereas usual means most commonly occurring.


Typical is also noun with the meaning: anything that is typical, normal, or standard.

check bellow for the other definitions of Typical and Usual

  1. Typical as an adjective:

    Capturing the overall sense of a thing.

  2. Typical as an adjective:

    Characteristically representing something by form, group, idea or type.

  3. Typical as an adjective:

    Normal, average; to be expected.

  1. 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."

  1. Usual as an adjective:

    Most commonly occurring; typical.

    Examples:

    "The preference of a boy to a girl is a usual occurrence in some parts of China."

    "It is becoming more usual these days to rear children as bilingual."