quintessential
the best (of something)
TRANSLATION
quintessential = der Inbegriff, exemplarisch, vollkommen, Kern, das Wahre- quintessence= Kern, Quintessenz (woerterbuch.info, DH) --- GOOGLE INDEX quintessential: approximately 5,800,000 hits
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
In the popular imagination, Carcharodon carcharias is the QUINTESSENTIAL predator. The largest of all predatory sharks, it reaches a length of more than twenty feet and a weight of 4,500 pounds.
(Natural History Magazine)
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War is not the QUINTESSENTIAL emergency in which man has to prove himself, as my generation learned at its school desks in the days of the Kaiser; rather, peace is the emergency in which we all have to prove ourselves.
- Gustav Heinemann, former German President
(Natural History Magazine)
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War is not the QUINTESSENTIAL emergency in which man has to prove himself, as my generation learned at its school desks in the days of the Kaiser; rather, peace is the emergency in which we all have to prove ourselves.
- Gustav Heinemann, former German President
Did you
know?
quintessential
adjective
- the essence of a thing in its purest and most concentrated form
- the most typical example or representative
(Merriam-Webster’s Online Dictionary)
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WORD ORIGIN
Modern particle physicists continue to search for the ultimate constituent of matter. Likewise, medieval alchemists tried to find a fifth primary essence, which together with earth, air, fire and water formed the substance of all heaven and earth. Aristotle called this substance aither or ether. The Greeks called it pempte ousia or, fifth essence. This was translated into Latin as quinta essentia and came to English via French as quintessence.
Around the sixteenth century, quintessence came to be used in the metaphorical sense as the most perfect or characteristic embodiment.
(sources: The India Tribune, Wikipedia)
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SYNONYMS
quintessential (adjective)
archetypal, characteristic, classic, exemplary, paradigmatic, representative, typical
quintessence (noun)
apotheosis, bottom, core, distillation, embodiment, epitome, essentiality, extract, gist, heart, kernel, last word, lifeblood, marrow, pith, soul, spirit, stuff, substance, ultimate
(Roget's New Millennium™ Thesaurus, DH)
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ANTONYMS
inferior, poor, second-rate, worst
(Roget's New Millennium™ Thesaurus)
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"He is the quintessential CFO; detailed, thorough, analytic and great with numbers."
adjective
- the essence of a thing in its purest and most concentrated form
- the most typical example or representative
(Merriam-Webster’s Online Dictionary)
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WORD ORIGIN
Modern particle physicists continue to search for the ultimate constituent of matter. Likewise, medieval alchemists tried to find a fifth primary essence, which together with earth, air, fire and water formed the substance of all heaven and earth. Aristotle called this substance aither or ether. The Greeks called it pempte ousia or, fifth essence. This was translated into Latin as quinta essentia and came to English via French as quintessence.
Around the sixteenth century, quintessence came to be used in the metaphorical sense as the most perfect or characteristic embodiment.
(sources: The India Tribune, Wikipedia)
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SYNONYMS
quintessential (adjective)
archetypal, characteristic, classic, exemplary, paradigmatic, representative, typical
quintessence (noun)
apotheosis, bottom, core, distillation, embodiment, epitome, essentiality, extract, gist, heart, kernel, last word, lifeblood, marrow, pith, soul, spirit, stuff, substance, ultimate
(Roget's New Millennium™ Thesaurus, DH)
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ANTONYMS
inferior, poor, second-rate, worst
(Roget's New Millennium™ Thesaurus)
---
IMPRESS YOUR FRIENDS TODAY
say something like:
"He is the quintessential CFO; detailed, thorough, analytic and great with numbers."
