paradigmatic

adjective

par·​a·​dig·​mat·​ic

variants or less commonly paradigmatical

-tə̇kəl

1

: exemplary, typical

situation is … felt to be not unique but modeled on, or paradigmatic of old situations

—Psychiatry

paradigmatic analysis of concepts such as space and inertia

—Otto Neurath

a paradigmatic significance for the religious situation of modern man

—M. S. Friedman

2

a

: of or relating to a grammatical paradigm

a paradigmatic set of forms

b

: inflectional

c

: of or relating to the range of elements that may occupy a given position in a linguistic structure

3

: of or relating to a philosophical or theoretical paradigm

paradigmatically

-tə̇k(ə)lē 

adverb

Word History

Etymology

Late Latin paradigmaticos, from Greek paradeigmatikos from paradeigmat-, paradeigma + -ikos -ic, -ical

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Rhymes for paradigmatic

• adiabatic
• aristocratic
• asymptomatic
• axiomatic
• diagrammatic
• diaphragmatic
• electrostatic
• endolymphatic
• epigrammatic
• homeostatic
• idiomatic
• magnetostatic