Synonyms for quintessential

Grammar : Adj

Spell : kwin-tuh-sen-shuh l

Phonetic Transcription : ˌkwɪn təˈsɛn ʃəl

Définition of quintessential

Origin : c.1600, "purest, most refined," from quintessence (Medieval Latin quint essentia) + -al (1). Related: Quintessentially.

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Example sentences :

Where the notion of doing so is simply ludicrous, you have quintessential poetry.
Extract from : « Poetry for Poetry's Sake » by A. C. Bradley

A quintessential drop of intellect is apt to be in poetic blood.
Extract from : « The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke » by Rupert Brooke

You were sixteen then, and the effect as you came into the room was quintessential.
Extract from : « Marge Askinforit » by Barry Pain

But after he has made them quintessential of a class, he must be careful also to individualize them.
Extract from : « Materials and Methods of Fiction » by Clayton Hamilton

Then turning after a moment's silence to the girl, "What says our Quintessential Stone to this?"
Extract from : « The Long Night » by Stanley Weyman

His life is the ideal of “subjectivity”—the quintessential essence of selfishness.
Extract from : « Village Life in China » by Arthur H. Smith

He is too much like a woman, without being a woman; and between the two characters, he misses the quintessential delicacy of both.
Extract from : « Love Letters of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Volume 2 of 2 » by Nathaniel Hawthorne

No town in the universe can be duller; because, from its quintessential dulness, there is but one step to total inanition.
Extract from : « Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 460 » by Various

And consider the freezing isolation of a body of our quintessential elect, seeing below them none to resemble them!
Extract from : « Beauchamp's Career, Complete » by George Meredith

He extracts the finest flavors and quintessential principles from flesh and vegetables.
Extract from : « The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866 » by Various

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