Definitive and Textbook

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Definitive adjective - Constituting, serving as, or worthy of being a pattern to be imitated.

Usage example: Dashiell Hammett's Sam Spade is often cited as the definitive hard-boiled private detective

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Textbook and definitive are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Textbook" instead an adjective "Definitive".

Textbook adjective - Constituting, serving as, or worthy of being a pattern to be imitated.

Usage example: a textbook example of a film that captures the feel of the novel on which it is based

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Definitive and textbook are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Definitive" instead an adjective "Textbook".

She is the author of the definitive textbook on profiling psychopathic killers, yet is somehow intimately involved in Dexter's own formative past as one.

Source: Series / Dexter
Biology, 8th Edition by Neil Campbell and Jane Reece, which is a definitive textbook of sorts, has 1393 numbered pages and is a pain to lug around.

Source: Doorstopper
Molecular Biology of the Cell by Horton et al is a non-definitive textbook of biochemistry and cell physiology, which clocks in at well over 1400 pages — and that's without counting the lengthy table of contents and appendix.

Source: Doorstopper

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