English Explanatory Dictionary

sound-symbolic

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. characterized by sound symbolism
  2. (of a unit of sound or meaning such as a word, morpheme, phoneme, syllable, etc.) composed of speech sounds that are not arbitrary but also not overtly onomatopoeic

Word forms

sound-symbolic sound symbolic

Etymology

From sound symbolism + -ic.

Synonyms

expressive imitative mimological phonaesthetic phonosemantic
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