archetypal
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6.8
- adjective
- /ˌɑrkɪˈtaɪpəl/
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arquetípico
- The movie features an archetypal hero who overcomes great challenges to save the day.
- archetypal image
- archetypal journey
- archetypal story
T Le Mans, who's this, you know, archetypal silent warrior figure.
- T Le Mans, who's this, you know, archetypal silent warrior figure.
- And the tree is perhaps the archetypal metaphor diagram of the Middle Ages.
- And so my reclamation focus is really on a woman's journey and the archetypal elements of that.
- in Nick as well. It's just like that. I kept saying entrepreneurial archetypal path because that is what the best have done
- They don't get, I mean, like the, the, the the grooming gangs would have been the most archetypal example of hate crimes like these were done on ethnic and gender lines.
- And the Rebel, this archetypal character of the Rebel, well, it might be a character that we point to and say, oh, that's the good guy in this story.
- That's how your biology is designed to work is through very archetypal prototypical expected cycles.
- It's it's not the detached, you know, psychologist amusing on archetypal things.
- This is the most complex, layered on archetypal approach and performance I've ever seen in my life.
- Rooney I think's the archetypal like street football, like British phenomenon, isn't he?
- A depthful memoir by Jean Chenoda Bolan, who has taught millions of women, millions of women, their archetypal goddessness.
Examples
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The story itself, one of doomed love, is perhaps the archetypal romantic plot.
Academic text (1993) -
And the Rebel, this archetypal character of the Rebel, well, it might be a character that we point to and say, oh, that's the good guy in this story.
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- It's a common archetypal image.
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There is good reason for that archetypal dream, the girl next door as wife.
Fiction book (1991) -
Others saw the creature as a modern example of the archetypal Green Man.
Academic text (2013) -
Unlike earlier versions of the immigration story, there is no one archetypal story.
Academic text (1999) -
We need an archetypal figure to embody the message.
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We recognize that there has been no single archetypal immigrant experience.
Academic text (1999) -
Myths, however, become archetypal projections of human experience only when they are widespread.
Academic text (1990) -
Archetypes appear in consciousness in the form of archetypal images, which are universal motifs.
Academic text (1991)
Synonyms
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1.0
Having the usual qualities of a person, thing, or group
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3.4
A typical, high quality example of its kind
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7.4
The most typical example of a thing that shows its main qualities
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6.8
A typical example that other things are made like
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7.5
A very typical example of a person or thing that others copy
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8.3
Acting as a typical example or model
Being the original or typical example that others are based on
Being the original model that others copy
Antonyms
How Typical
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word archetypal comes from the Greek roots arche 'first' and typos 'pattern' or 'model', and you can see the idea in the common word type. So something archetypal is like the 'first model' and therefore the most typical or perfect example of its kind.