Synonyms for symbolic
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : sim-bol-ik |
| Phonetic Transcription : sɪmˈbɒl ɪk |
Top 10 synonyms for symbolic
Définition of symbolic
Origin :- c.1600 (implied in symbolically); see symbol + -ic.
- adj representative
- Here, perhaps, may be found the symbolic clue to the strife's cause.
- Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson
- I was a man who stood in symbolic relations to the art and culture of my age.
- Extract from : « De Profundis » by Oscar Wilde
- Byron was a symbolic figure, but his relations were to the passion of his age and its weariness of passion.
- Extract from : « De Profundis » by Oscar Wilde
- I have said of myself that I was one who stood in symbolic relations to the art and culture of my age.
- Extract from : « De Profundis » by Oscar Wilde
- She would meet him at that symbolic bough: there be rendered the Judgment of the Years!
- Extract from : « Bride of the Mistletoe » by James Lane Allen
- There is a sense in which it is impossible to value too highly the formal and the symbolic.
- Extract from : « The Child and the Curriculum » by John Dewey
- The pure, sweet dawn, to him symbolic of Resurrection and Life!
- Extract from : « Cleo The Magnificent » by Louis Zangwill
- This is the dream, at once simple and symbolic, which begins to worry Khalid.
- Extract from : « The Book of Khalid » by Ameen Rihani
- An apparition like her has no need, thank heaven, of your symbolic mummery.
- Extract from : « Erdgeist (Earth-Spirit) » by Frank Wedekind
- I don't know why he should always have appeared to me symbolic.
- Extract from : « Lord Jim » by Joseph Conrad
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