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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (1)

1. representing the perfect example of a class or quality;


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Quintessential \Quin`tes*sen"tial\, a. Of the nature of a quintessence; purest; most characteristic. "Quintessential extract of mediocrity." --G. Eliot. [1913 Webster] Quintet
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

quintessential adj 1: representing the perfect example of a class or quality
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

86 Moby Thesaurus words for "quintessential": appropriate, archetypal, archetypical, best, bottom, champion, characteristic, choice, classic, classical, consummate, developed, distinctive, distinguished, distinguishing, elect, elite, essential, essentiality, exemplary, expert, finished, for the best, fully developed, greatest, handpicked, ideal, idiocratic, idiosyncratic, in character, intrinsic, marked, marrow, masterful, masterly, matchless, mature, matured, model, natural, naturalistic, normal, optimal, optimum, paramount, peculiar, peerless, perfected, picked, pith, polished, prime, prize, proficient, proper, prototypal, pure, quintessence, realistic, refined, regular, representative, ripe, ripened, sample, select, single, singular, soul, stuff, substance, supreme, surpassing, true to form, true to type, typal, typic, typical, unique, unmatchable, unmatched, unparalleled, unsurpassed, usual, very best, virtuality