The Collaborative International Dictionary
Archetypical \Ar`che*typ"ic*al\, a. Relating to an archetype; archetypal. [1913 Webster] ||
Wiktionary
a. In the way of an archetype, in the way of an idealized model or most representative.
WordNet
adj. representing or constituting an original type after which other similar things are patterned; "archetypal patterns"; "she was the prototypal student activist" [syn: archetypal, prototypal, prototypic, prototypical]
Usage examples of "archetypical".
The sight of dark fighting figures in front of the foolfeel facia, an undulating screen of moving erotic abstracts, was archetypical of the Zone.
The latter ability was important, whether dealing with the general archetypical figures or the idiomatic entities that inhabited specific Locations.
Bololos who were themselves no less in the grasp of an archetypical holy violence.
To expose oneself to an archetypical entity was an invitation to be absorbed into it, all conscious identity lost in irreducible psychosis.
The Bololos, their psyches contaminated by the contents of the human unconscious, took them up and began to act out myths and archetypical situations.
Bandar could imagine Malabar and the angry hydromants, standing along the south wall, eyeing the darkness beyond the shantytown and waiting for the first glint of spear and halberd in the grip of massive Bololos who were themselves no less in the grasp of an archetypical holy violence.
I not be a blend of several archetypical entities, like you and anyone else?
However, an algebraic equation is an archetypical left-hemisphere construction, while a regular geometrical curve, the pattern in an array of related points, is a characteristic right-hemisphere production.