symbolic

Speech parts

1. symbolic - Adjective

2. symbolic - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

See Symbolics.

Alt. of Symbolical

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

emblematic significant typical characteristic representative expressive indicative allegorical figurative metaphorical suggestive evocative symbolical emblematical representational
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Antonyms

dowdy actual literal arid boring dim
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Related terms

symbolism symbolize symbolization symbol symbolise symbolisation

Phrases with the word

symbolic of symbolic logician symbolic figurehead but symbolic symbolic system symbolic writing

Examples

We humans are an extremely important manifestation of the replication bomb, because it is through us - through our brains, our symbolic culture and our technology - that the explosion may proceed to the next stage and reverberate through deep space. Richard Dawkins

Roots is not just a saga of my family. It is the symbolic saga of a people. Alex Haley

The good thing is that all the symbolic elements are gone, and that which really matters - the core - is left. Anders Fogh Rasmussen

Surely that little pseudo-gothic church on Broadway, hidden amongst the skyscrapers, is symbolic of the age! On the whole face of the globe the civilization that has conquered it has failed to build a temple or a tomb. André Malraux

It became like a symbolic thing, to be "an artist.” After Duchamp, I realized that being an artist is more about a lifestyle and attitude than producing some product. Ai Weiwei

Pantagruel was telling me that he believed the queen had given the symbolic word used among her subjects to denote sovereign good cheer, when she said to her tabachins, A panacea. François Rabelais

Close letter words and terms

symbolatrous symbolatry symbole symbolic constant symbolic dead symbolic expression