The Collaborative International Dictionary
Paradigmatic \Par`a*dig*mat"ic\, Paradigmatical \Par`a*dig*mat"ic*al\, a. [Gr. paradeigmatiko`s.] Exemplary. -- Par`a*dig*mat"ic*al*ly, adv. [Obs.]
Paradigmatic \Par`a*dig*mat"ic\, n. (Eccl. Hist.) A writer of memoirs of religious persons, as examples of Christian excellence.
Wiktionary
a. 1 Of or pertaining to a paradigm. 2 Related as members of a substitution class. 3 (context obsolete English) exemplary. n. (context historical religion English) A writer of memoirs of religious persona, as examples of Christian excellence.
WordNet
adj. of or relating to a grammatical paradigm; "paradigmatic inflection"
of or relating to a typical example; "paradigmatic learning"
related as members of a substitution class; "paradigmatic word associations" [ant: syntagmatic]
Usage examples of "paradigmatic".
The anthropic theories of cosmological evolution were somewhere near their paradigmatic peak.
On the one hand, marketing practices and consumer consumption are prime terrain for developing postmodernist thinking: certain postmodernist theorists, for example, see perpetual shopping and the consumption of commodities and commodified images as the paradigmatic and defining activities of postmodern experience, our collective journeys through hyperreality.
The postmodernity of fundamentalism has to be recognized primarily in its refusal of modernity as a weapon of Euro-American hegemony-and in this regard Islamic fundamentalism is indeed the paradigmatic case.
This historical process of subjectivization was revolutionary in the sense that it determined a paradigmatic and irreversible change in the mode of life of the multitude.
B, or living systems, and make them paradigmatic for all levels, with equally embarrassing results but now in both directions: B underexplains C and overexplains or is retrotensive with A, trying, for example, to read autopoiesis into the physiosphereunconvincingly.
She brushed flies from a suspended pig's carcass with a palm-leaf fan, and as his eyes locked with hers he felt a paradigmatic flash of her numb misery and ignorance, like stepping on an electric eel.