Crossword clues for prototypical
prototypical
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
prototypical
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ "All I Want for Christmas" is the prototypical comedy for 8- to 12-year-olds.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ At its worst, this might sound like a circular method of analysis, setting up a prototypical chicken-and-egg dilemma.
▪ It honed in on the prototypical shape that was behind all the degraded images.
▪ Several authors of early and / or prototypical works are listed below.
▪ There are laughs to be had in putting James at odds with his own Americanness, and indeed his own prototypical modernity.
▪ With his broken-down truck and borrowed electricity, Carvel was the prototypical sole proprietor.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
prototypical
1640s, from prototype + -ical.
Wiktionary
prototypical
a. constituting or representing an original type of something that others are modelled on, or derived from
WordNet
prototypical
adj. representing or constituting an original type after which other similar things are patterned; "archetypal patterns"; "she was the prototypal student activist" [syn: archetypal, archetypical, prototypal, prototypic]
Usage examples of "prototypical".
But it made him feel like a prototypical adolescent: a reeking gloom of zits and tit mags.
Some were the prototypical Russian matryoshka dolls, a bandanaed figure with a roly-poly bottom.
A pair of golfers are enjoying tall beers, and there's a bright new television turned to the golfing channel, and there's a youngish man talking on a cell phone, looking like the prototypical golf pro.