symbolic
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From French symbolique or directly from Latin symbolicus, from Ancient Greek συμβολικός (sumbolikós, “of or belonging to a symbol”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Audio (General American): (file) - Hyphenation: sym‧bo‧lic
- Rhymes: -ɒlɪk
Adjective
[edit]symbolic (comparative more symbolic, superlative most symbolic)
- Pertaining to a symbol.
- 2013 June 28, Joris Luyendijk, “Our banks are out of control”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 3, page 21:
- Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic […]. Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. When a series of bank failures made this impossible, there was widespread anger, leading to the public humiliation of symbolic figures.
- Implicitly representing or referring to another thing.
- a symbolic gesture
Derived terms
[edit]- antisymbolic
- asymbolic
- Blissard's symbolic method
- concolic
- multisymbolic
- nonsymbolic
- postsymbolic
- presymbolic
- shambolic
- sociosymbolic
- sound-symbolic
- subsymbolic
- symblematic
- symbolical
- symbolically
- symbolicate
- symbolic constant
- symbolic expression
- symbolicism
- symbolic language
- symbolic link
- symbolic logic
- symbolicness
- symbolics
- symbolic speech
- unsymbolic
Related terms
[edit](terms related to symbolic (adjective)):
Translations
[edit]pertaining to a symbol
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implicitly referring to another thing
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