different between typical vs exemplative

English

Alternative forms

• typicall (obsolete)

Etymology

From Late Latin typicalis, from Latin typicus (“typical”), from Ancient Greek ??????? (tupikós, “of or pertaining to a type, conformable, typical”), from ????? (túpos, “mark, impression, type”), equivalent to typic, type + -al.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?p?kl?/
• Hyphenation: typ?i?cal

Adjective

typical (comparative more typical, superlative most typical)

1. Capturing the overall sense of a thing.
2. Characteristically representing something by form, group, idea or type.
3. Normal, average; to be expected.
4. (taxonomy) Of a lower taxon, containing the type of the higher taxon.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:common

Antonyms

• atypical

Derived terms

• typicality
• typically
• typicalness

Related terms

• typal
• type
• typic

Translations

See also

• gestalt
• gist
• resemblance
• emblematic
• prefigurative
• distinctive

Noun

typical (plural typicals)

1. Anything that is typical, normal, or standard.

   Antipsychotic drugs can be divided into typicals and atypicals.

   Among the moths, typicals were more common than melanics.

Further reading

• typical in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• typical in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• clay pit, claypit

English

Adjective

exemplative (comparative more exemplative, superlative most exemplative)

1. Serving as or providing a typical example.
   • 1982, Yougindra Khushalani, Dignity and Honour of Women as Basic and Fundamental Human Rights, Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN, page 28,

     The United Nations War Crimes commission had in fact approved the list and considered the enumerated acts are not exhaustive but exemplative war crimes.

   • 1987, "Some pitfalls in applied general equilibrium modeling", Jean Waelbroeck, in Advances in Econometrics: Fifth World Congress, Truman Fassett Bewley (ed), Cambridge University Press, ?ISBN, page 199,

     The discussion of applications will be exemplative only.

   • 2000, US patent 6036576: Light sword toy with moving internal object, US Patent Office,

     Connely also refers to a scrolling feature, but provides no exemplative mechanism for allowing the light to travel along the sword.

2. Exemplary.

Usage notes

• Whereas exemplary has positive connotations, exemplative is generally neutral.

Synonyms

• (providing an example): illustrative, demonstrative

Translations