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archetypal

UK/ˈɑːkɪtaɪpəl/US/ˈɑɹkɪtaɪpəl/

archetypal adjective: of or pertaining to an archetype.

Adjective

archetypal (comparative more archetypal, superlative most archetypal)

  1. Of or pertaining to an archetype.
    • In 1928 [Martin] Heidegger succeeded [Edmund] Husserl to take a chair at Freiburg and in his inaugural lecture made a pronouncement that earned him a reputation as an archetypal metaphysician with his claim that our awareness of people as a whole depends on our experience of dread in the face of...2014 April 12, Michael Inwood, “Martin Heidegger: the philosopher who fell for Hitler [print version: Hitler's philosopher]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review), London, page R11

archetypal meaning in Tamil and Malayalam

archetypal in Tamil

மூலப்பிரதியான

archetypal in Malayalam

quintessential, classic, most typical
മാതൃകാപരമായ, പ്രാക്ത രൂപമനുസരിച്ചുള്ള, മൂലരൂപമായ, സാരഭൂതമായ, സമ്പൂർണ്ണമാതൃകയായ, അത്യുദാത്തമാതൃകയായ

Examples of archetypal in a sentence

  • Upstairs Downstairs hosts the Kennedys and Wallis Simpson (these days, in British culture, the archetypal louche American).
  • Conceptually speaking, the platformer may be the most archetypal video-game genre.
  • The archetypal hybrid is the humanzee, as it has appeared in popular culture and in policy discussions.

All 25 example sentences with archetypal

Synonyms of archetypal

Forms of archetypal

comparativemore archetypal
superlativemost archetypal

Origin of archetypal

From archetype + -al.

Words formed from archetypal

Questions about archetypal

What does archetypal mean?
Archetypal means of or pertaining to an archetype.
What is archetypal in Tamil?
Archetypal in Tamil is மூலப்பிரதியான. See Archetypal meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is archetypal?
Archetypal is an adjective.
How do you pronounce archetypal?
Archetypal is pronounced /ˈɑːkɪtaɪpəl/ (UK).

Words near archetypal in the dictionary

  1. archet
  2. archeth
  3. archetier
  4. archetiers
  5. archets
  6. archetypal
  7. archetypally
  8. archetype
  9. archetyped
  10. archetypes
  11. archetypic

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Adapted from Wiktionary: archetypal (page history and authors); archetypal (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); archetypal (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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