English Explanatory Dictionary

symbolic

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Pertaining to a symbol.
  2. Implicitly representing or referring to another thing.

Pronunciation

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Word forms

symbolic more symbolic most symbolic

Etymology

From French symbolique or directly from Latin symbolicus, from Ancient Greek συμβολικός (sumbolikós, “of or belonging to a symbol”), equivalent to symbol + -ic.

Related words

symbol symbolism symbolist symbolistic symbolization symbolisation symbolize symbolise symbology

Derived words

antisymbolic asymbolic Blissard's symbolic method concolic ethnosymbolic multisymbolic neurosymbolic 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
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