quintessential

quintessential
Synonyms and related words:
appropriate, archetypal, archetypical, best, bottom, champion, characteristic, choice, classic, classical, consummate, developed, distinctive, distinguished, distinguishing, elect, elite, essential, essentiality, exemplary, expert, finished, for the best, fully developed, greatest, handpicked, ideal, idiocratic, idiosyncratic, in character, intrinsic, marked, marrow, masterful, masterly, matchless, mature, matured, model, natural, naturalistic, normal, optimal, optimum, paramount, peculiar, peerless, perfected, picked, pith, polished, prime, prize, proficient, proper, prototypal, pure, quintessence, realistic, refined, regular, representative, ripe, ripened, sample, select, single, singular, soul, stuff, substance, supreme, surpassing, true to form, true to type, typal, typic, typical, unique, unmatchable, unmatched, unparalleled, unsurpassed, usual, very best, virtuality

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  • Quintessential — Quin tes*sen tial, a. Of the nature of a quintessence; purest; most characteristic. Quintessential extract of mediocrity. G. Eliot. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • quintessential — index best Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • quintessential — (adj.) c.1600, from QUINTESSENCE (Cf. quintessence) (M.L. quint essentia) + AL (Cf. al) (1). Related: Quintessentially …   Etymology dictionary

  • quintessential — ► ADJECTIVE ▪ representing the most perfect or typical example. DERIVATIVES quintessentially adverb …   English terms dictionary

  • quintessential — [[t]kwɪ̱ntɪse̱nʃ(ə)l[/t]] 1) ADJ GRADED: usu ADJ n Quintessential means representing a perfect or typical example of something. [FORMAL] This was quintessential Midwestern farming country... Everybody thinks of him as the quintessential New… …   English dictionary

  • quintessential — quin·tes·sen·tial (kwĭn tə sĕnʹshəl) adj. Of, relating to, or having the nature of a quintessence; being the most typical: “Liszt was the quintessential romantic” (Musical Heritage Review).   quin tes·senʹtial·ly adv. * * * …   Universalium

  • quintessential — adj. Quintessential is used with these nouns: ↑example …   Collocations dictionary

  • quintessential — quin|tes|sen|tial [ˌkwıntıˈsenʃəl] adj being a perfect example of a particular type of person or thing = ↑typical ▪ Guys and Dolls is the quintessential American musical. >quintessentially adv ▪ a place that is quintessentially English …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • quintessential — adjective being a perfect example of a particular type of person or thing: Guys and Dolls is the quintessential American musical. quintessentially adverb …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • Quintessential Media Player — Quintessential Player/Quintessential Media Player Тип медиапроигрыватель Разработчик Paul Quinn (Quinnware) …   Википедия

  • Quintessential Player — Infobox Software name = Quintessential Player caption = Quintessential Player including Remote developer = Paul Quinn (Quinnware) released = ? frequently updated = yes programming language = ? operating system = Windows language = ? genre = Media …   Wikipedia

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