Usually means: Representing the most perfect example.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word quintessential:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. quintessential: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. quintessential: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. quintessential: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. quintessential: Collins English Dictionary
  5. quintessential: Vocabulary.com
  6. Quintessential, quintessential: Wordnik
  7. quintessential: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. quintessential: Wiktionary
  9. Quintessential, quintessential: Dictionary.com
  10. quintessential: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  11. Quintessential: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Quintessential: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. quintessential: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. quintessential: Rhymezone
  15. Quintessential: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. quintessential: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. quintessential: Free Dictionary
  18. quintessential: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. quintessential: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  20. Quintessential: The Word Detective
  21. quintessential: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. quintessential: Legal dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Quintessential: Urban Dictionary

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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ adjective:  Of the nature of a quintessence (in all senses); being or relating to the ultimate essence of something.
▸ noun:  The fundamental essence of something.

Similar:
essential, substantive, absolute, essentialistic, penultimate, essentialist, elementary, existential, ontological, axiomlike, more...

Opposite:
unessential, nonessential, inessential

Types:
perfect, ideal, archetypal, prototypical, more...

Phrases:
The Quintessential Quintuplets, quintessential paradigms, irreplaceable quintessential, quintessential element, quintessential representative, more...

Colors:
    burgundy,     forest green,     charcoal,     ivory,     taupe,     maroon,     olive,     teal,     mustard,     rust



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Similar:
essential, substantive, absolute, essentialistic, penultimate, essentialist, elementary, existential, ontological, axiomlike, more...

Opposite:
unessential, nonessential, inessential

Types:
perfect, ideal, archetypal, prototypical, more...

Phrases:
The Quintessential Quintuplets, quintessential paradigms, irreplaceable quintessential, quintessential element, quintessential representative, quintessential classic, opposite of quintessential, more...

Colors:
    burgundy,     forest green,     charcoal,     ivory,     taupe,     maroon,     olive,     teal,     mustard,     rust



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