quintessential
Speech parts
1. quintessential - Noun
2. quintessential - Adjective
Meaning
Of the nature of a quintessence; purest.
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Examples
Acting serves as the quintessential social lubricant and a device for protecting our interests and gaining advantage in every aspect of life.
Pushing fear and sex buttons is a poor substitute for aesthetic elation, transcendental euphoria and quintessential stimulation.
The courage to press on regardless - regardless of whether we face calm seas or rough seas, and especially when the market storms howl around us - is the quintessential attribute of the successful investor.
A quintessential experience is to raft the Rio Grande through the Blue Mountains, stopping off at waterfalls and having picnics of barbecued fish.
'The Glass Castle' by Jeannette Walls is the quintessential dysfunctional family.
The quintessential exercise of free speech in a culture supposedly built on that concept and dedicated to it, the Internet's development is as historically important to humanity - perhaps even more so - as Gutenberg's invention of the printing press.