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archetypically

archetypically adverb: in an archetypical fashion.

Adverb

archetypically (comparative more archetypically, superlative most archetypically)

  1. In an archetypical fashion.
    • From the city sidewalk, there are few summer sights more archetypically urban than the face glimpsed in an open window, gazing silently out at the street.2007 August 18, Andy Newman, “Raising Sash for a View of the City’s Daily Ballet”, in New York Times

Forms of archetypically

comparativemore archetypically
superlativemost archetypically

Origin of archetypically

From archetypical + -ly.

Questions about archetypically

What does archetypically mean?
Archetypically means in an archetypical fashion.
What part of speech is archetypically?
Archetypically is an adverb.

Words near archetypically in the dictionary

  1. archetype
  2. archetyped
  3. archetypes
  4. archetypic
  5. archetypical
  6. archetypically
  7. archetyping
  8. archetypist
  9. archetypists
  10. archetypoid
  11. archetypoids

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