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View definitions for quintessential

quintessential

adjective as in model

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Ignoring people you hooked up with at Shooters when encountering them on campus is a quintessential Duke experience.

But in reality he is the quintessential example of how Washington corrupts.

Santorini is an island of churches: nearly 400 of them, many topped with the quintessential blue dome.

No wonder that of all the Bradys, it is the quintessential old maid who we miss the most.

What, in your view, makes a quintessential Sony Classics release?

If you really represented the country in its government, would you not get its partisanship in a quintessential form?

He had a delicacy, when he chose to be delicate, which is quintessential, and a vigour which is thoroughly manly.

Such pain, such pleasure, is the quintessential attenuated "matter" with which our soul clothes itself.

This good man Osborn, whom I have never seen or heard of before, seems to be quintessential of all that side.

Does not this, indeed, form the very quintessential attribute of good government?

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On this page you'll find 30 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to quintessential, such as: typical, ultimate, classic, and ideal.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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