Quintessential
Source : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Quintessential \Quin`tes*sen"tial\, a.
Of the nature of a quintessence; purest; most characteristic.
"Quintessential extract of mediocrity." --G. Eliot.
[1913 Webster] Quintet
Source : WordNet (r) 2.0
quintessential
adj : representing the perfect example of a class or quality
Source : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
86 Moby Thesaurus words for "quintessential":
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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