archetypal

Speech parts

1. archetypal - Adjective

2. archetypal - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Of or pertaining to an archetype; consisting a model (real or ideal) or pattern; original.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

archetypical prototypical prototypic prototypal archetypic supreme prime first original common average best standard model complete
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Antonyms

new last modern individual spotty unusual
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Phrases with the word

archetypal pattern archetypal color archetypal playboy archetypal psycho archetypal mage archetypal vampire

Examples

The fall or scrapping of a cultural world puts us all into the same archetypal cesspool, engendering nostalgia for earlier conditions. Marshall McLuhan

I am not the archetypal leading man. This is mainly for one reason: as you may have noticed, I have no hair. Patrick Stewart

Daniel Patrick Moynihan is the archetypal extremely smart person who went into politics anyway instead of doing something worthwhile for his country. So maybe he owes all of us an apology... P. J. O'Rourke

The smouldering eroticism of great European actresses like Jeanne Moreau demonstrated to my generations women's archetypal mystery and glamour, completely missing from the totalitarian world-view of the misogynist Foucault. For me, the big French D is not Derrida, but Deneuve. Camille Paglia

Interestingly, it's as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey, the embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired. Alan Hirsch

The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by technology of yesterday. Dennis Gabor

Close letter words and terms

archesporium archet archetier archetypal color archetypal housewife archetypal mage