prototypal

POS

Adjective

HYPHEN

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adjective prototypal has 1 sense

prototypal(s = adj.all) archetypal, archetypical, prototypic, prototypical - representing or constituting an original type after which other similar things are patterned; "archetypal patterns"; "she was the prototypal student activist"

Derived form noun prototype₁

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THESAURUS

prototypal

antitypic, archetypal, archetypic, classic, classical, exemplary, ideal, model, paradigmatic, primary, prototypic, quintessential, representative, uncopied, unduplicated, unexampled, unimitated, unprecedented, unreproduced