archetypal

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The plot of The Breakfast Club strains credulity, yet its characters are so archetypal -- the nerd, the jock, etc. -- that the poster for the 2008 documentary imitated it.

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  1. Of or pertaining to an archetype; constituting a model or pattern; original: as, “one archetypal mind,” Cudworth. Also archetypic, archetypical. Glorified eyes must see by the archetypal Sun, or the light of God. Sir T. Browne, Christ. Mor., iii. 15.
  2. Archetypal idea a Platonic idea.
  3. Archetypal world an immaterial world supposed by some Platonists to have been first created as a pattern, according to which the sensible world was constructed: opposed to ectypal world.

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  • "Pennies From Heaven" View and discuss the archetypal, mythic, depth psychological dimensions af the film at 7 p.m. at The Dream Institute, 1672 University near McGee. —  The Berkeley Daily Planet, The East Bay's Independent Newspaper
  • It is a bit disconcerting, like the archetypal visit to one's childhood home and neighborhood, where everything that once seemed so great and magical looks infinitely smaller and shabbier than one remembered. —  The Chicago Blog
  • The setting could stand as the archetypal Red Riding setting. —  The Guardian World News
  • This is seen as the archetypal success story which donors have been trying to repeat ever since but with far less success. —  MercatorNet
  • The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift plays like the archetypal Western. —  Filmcritic.com Movie Reviews
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