What does epitomal mean?
Epitomal means epitomic.
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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
epitomic.
Pee-wee Herman is a brilliant creation. He is the epitomal '50s nerd: overly fastidious and so repressed that his sexual energy keeps erupting in nervous giggles and snide, childish, quibbles. In his two-sizes-too-small gray suit and his slightly made-up face, he resembles nothing less than a contemporary Little Lord Fauntleroy crossed with Joel Grey in Cabaret.
Use epitomal when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Epitomal means epitomic.
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Pee-wee Herman is a brilliant creation. He is the epitomal '50s nerd: overly fastidious and so repressed that his sexual energy keeps erupting in nervous giggles and snide, childish, quibbles. In his two-sizes-too-small gray suit and his slightly made-up face, he resembles nothing less than a contemporary Little Lord Fauntleroy crossed with Joel Grey in Cabaret.
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