archetypal
1Archetypal — Ar che*ty pal, a. Of or pertaining to an archetype; consisting a model (real or ideal) or pattern; original. One archetypal mind. Gudworth. [1913 Webster] Note: Among Platonists, the archetypal world is the world as it existed as an idea of God… …
2archetypal — index primordial Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …
3archetypal — (adj.) 1640s, from L. archetypum (see ARCHETYPE (Cf. archetype)) + AL (Cf. al) (1). Jungian sense is from 1923 …
4archetypal — [adj] most typical average, classic, clichéd, conventional, exemplary, hackneyed, model, most characteristic, paradigmatic, prime, quintessential, representative, standard, stereotypical, stock, textbook, trite; concept 530 Ant. atypical, unique …
5archétypal — archétype [ arketip ] n. m. • architipe 1230; lat. archetypum, gr. arkhetupon ♦ Type primitif ou idéal; original qui sert de modèle. ⇒ 2. étalon, modèle, 1. original, principe, prototype. « L hôtel des Cormon est, dans son genre, un archétype des …
6archetypal — [[t]ɑ͟ː(r)kɪta͟ɪp(ə)l[/t]] ADJ GRADED: usu ADJ n Someone or something that is archetypal has all the most important characteristics of a particular kind of person or thing and is a perfect example of it. [FORMAL] Cricket is the archetypal English …
7archetypal — ar|che|typ|al [ ,arkə taıpl, arkə,taıpl ] adjective only before noun very typical of a particular type of person or thing: In his dark suit, he looked like the archetypal businessman …
8archetypal — UK [ˌɑː(r)kɪˈtaɪp(ə)l] / US [ˌɑrkəˈtaɪp(ə)l] / US [ˈɑrkəˌtaɪp(ə)l] adjective [only before noun] very typical of a particular type of person or thing In his dark suit, he looked like the archetypal businessman …
9archetypal — archetype ► NOUN 1) a very typical example. 2) an original model. 3) a recurrent motif in literature or art. DERIVATIVES archetypal adjective archetypical adjective. ORIGIN Greek arkhetupon, from arkhe primitive + tupos a model …
10archetypal — adjective representing or constituting an original type after which other similar things are patterned archetypal patterns she was the prototypal student activist • Syn: ↑archetypical, ↑prototypal, ↑prototypic, ↑prototypical • Similar to …
