semaphoric

English

Etymology

From semaphore +‎ -ic.

Adjective

semaphoric (comparative more semaphoric, superlative most semaphoric)

1. using semaphore
2. involving waving the arms, as if using semaphore
   • 1913, Horace Annesley Vachell, Bunch Grass‎^[1]:

     He was standing as he spoke, emphasising his periods with semaphoric motions of his right arm.

   • 2002 November 8, Jonathan Rosenbaum, “Master Thief”, in Chicago Reader‎^[2]:

     This is a cerebral take on the way hundreds of other movies have defined hysteria rather than any form of observation, a semaphoric set of signals designed to represent hysteria rather than embody it.

Anagrams

• microphase