archetypal

C2 Topic:People & Society
US /ˈɑɹkɪtaɪpəl/ UK /ˈɑːkɪtaɪpəl/
adj Freq #53822

Meanings

  1. 1
    adj

    Being a perfect or most typical example of a kind of person or thing.

    He is the archetypal absent-minded professor.

Thesaurus

Synonyms
1 adj · being a perfect or most... archetypicalprototypical

Etymology

From archetype + -al.

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