Meaning and example
representing the perfect example of a class or quality
The passage used "quintessential" to mean representing the perfect example of a class or quality.
Plain-English interpretation
A prevalence score of 1.839 places quintessential in the common range on this site. In practical terms, the word was recognized by about 97.2% of people in the source dataset.
Related words
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Similar-prevalence words
- Known by
- 97.2%
what you must know in order to determine the reference of an expression
- Known by
- 97.2%
so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period
- Known by
- 97.1%
establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts
- Known by
- 97.3%
an imperial decree that becomes part of the fundamental law of the land
- Known by
- 97.3%
recovering readily from adversity, depression, or the like
Source attribution
Brysbaert, M., Mandera, P., McCormick, S. F., & Keuleers, E. (2019). Word prevalence norms for 62,000 English lemmas. Behavior Research Methods, 51, 467-479.
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