What is the adjective for archetype?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb archetype which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

archetypical

In the way of an archetype, in the way of an idealized model or most representative.
Synonyms:

“What makes it additionally interesting is that it is a very archetypical Scottish story.”

“We crept into an antechamber lined with red velvet and faced a woman who appeared the archetypical brothel madam.”

“We tend to think of him as the archetypical rustic Bihari but in his case, still waters do run deep.”

archetypal

“Here was Dodgson's archetypal beggar child, as modelled by Alice Liddell, who was six years old.”

“In narrating the birth of Cyrus, he makes use of the standard archetypal motifs of the birth of the hero.”

“In the latter example the Pygmalion myth is combined with that of the archetypal mother.”

archetypic

“The archetypic hero embarks on a perilous journey to save the world.”

archetyped

archetyping

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