quintessential

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: quin=tes=sen=tial

CIDE DICTIONARY

quintessential, a. 

 Of the nature of a quintessence; purest; most characteristic.  G. Eliot.  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

quintessential

appropriate, archetypal, archetypical, best, bottom, champion, characteristic, choice, classic, classical, consummate, developed, distinctive, distinguished, distinguishing, elect, elite, essential, essentiality, exemplary, expert, finished, for the best, fully developed, greatest, handpicked, ideal, idiocratic, idiosyncratic, in character, intrinsic, marked, marrow, masterful, masterly, matchless, mature, matured, model, natural, naturalistic, normal, optimal, optimum, paramount, peculiar, peerless, perfected, picked, pith, polished, prime, prize, proficient, proper, prototypal, pure, quintessence, realistic, refined, regular, representative, ripe, ripened, sample, select, single, singular, soul, stuff, substance, supreme, surpassing, true to form, true to type, typal, typic, typical, unique, unmatchable, unmatched, unparalleled, unsurpassed, usual, very best, virtuality