quintessential en · ADJ
Pronunciation
Etymology
PIE word *pénkʷe From quintessence + -al.
Meanings
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Of the nature of a quintessence (in all senses); being or relating to the ultimate essence of something.
Twin Tracks is the old-fashioned autobiography of a quintessential Englishman, evocative of an age when you took halibut oil for rickets and sportsmen were amateurs who trained in their lunch breaks.
2014 May 6, Nicholas Shakespeare, “Twin Tracks by Roger Bannister, review: Roger Bannister's memoir of a life in athletics recalls the moment 60 years ago when he broke the four-minute mile [print version: The quiet Englishman, 10 May 2014, p. R26]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review), archived from the original on 09 Oct 2014:Often heralded as the quintessential RPG, and rarely rivaled by any other, this game is becoming increasingly difficult to find due to the fact that so many RPG fans are buying them at every chance they get.
2002, Andy Slaven, Video Game Bible, 1985-2002, page 145:I live in a quintessential (Australian) building type myself - a high-set 'Queenslander' on Captain Cook's tropical Cape Tribulation coast - and some of the details I love most about it are its Deco influences - [...].
2021 October 20, Dr Joseph Brennan, “A key part of our diverse railway heritage”, in RAIL, number 942, page 56:The krogan evolved in a lethal ecology. Over millions of years, the grim struggle to survive larger predators, virulent disease, and resource scarcity on their homeworld, Tuchanka, turned the lizards into quintessential survivors.
2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Krogan: Biology Codex entry:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| more quintessential | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic | |
| most quintessential | Degree=Sup | lexicographic |
Deriveds
super-quintessential · superquintessential · quintessentialness · quintessentiality · quintessentialize · quintessentialise · quintessentially
Translations (21)
fr quintessentiel (of the nature of a quintessence) · es quintaesencial (of the nature of a quintessence) · el τελειότατος (of the nature of a quintessence) · de der Inbegriff des/der... (of the nature of a quintessence) · pt quintessencial (of the nature of a quintessence) · ru типи́чный (of the nature of a quintessence) · km សារគតិ (of the nature of a quintessence) · de von Grund auf (of the nature of a quintessence) · cmn 典型的 (of the nature of a quintessence) · de durch und durch (of the nature of a quintessence) · et ülim (of the nature of a quintessence) · fi tyypillinen (of the nature of a quintessence) · ru существенный (of the nature of a quintessence) · km សារវន្ត (of the nature of a quintessence) · yi תּמציתדיק (of the nature of a quintessence) · fi pohjimmainen (of the nature of a quintessence) · yi עיקרדיק (of the nature of a quintessence) · km ខ្លឹមសារ (of the nature of a quintessence) · pt quinta-essencial (of the nature of a quintessence) · sh tipičan (of the nature of a quintessence) · no ultimat (of the nature of a quintessence)