symbolic

[Sym*bolĀ·ic]

When one thing represents something else that's more abstract, it is symbolic, like a cowboy's black hat in western films is symbolic of his sinister intentions.

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See Symbolics.

Adjective S.
serving as a visible symbol for something abstract; "a crown is emblematic of royalty"; "the spinning wheel was as symbolic of colonical Massachusetts as the codfish"

Adjective
relating to or using or proceeding by means of symbols; "symbolic logic"; "symbolic operations"; "symbolic thinking"

Adjective
using symbolism; "symbolic art"


a.
See Symbolics.

a.
Alt. of Symbolical


Symbolic

Sym*bol"ic , n. [Cf. F. symbolique. See Symbolic, a.] (Theol.) See Symbolics.

See Symbolics.

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Usage Examples

Man's ultimate concern must be expressed symbolically, because symbolic language alone is able to express the ultimate.

In any architecture, there is an equity between the pragmatic function and the symbolic function.

Epic poetry exhibits life in some great symbolic attitude. It cannot strictly be said to symbolize life itself, but always some manner of life.

In just the same way the thousands of successive positions of a runner are contracted into one sole symbolic attitude, which our eye perceives, which art reproduces, and which becomes for everyone the image of a man who runs.

Reconciliation requires changes of heart and spirit, as well as social and economic change. It requires symbolic as well as practical action.

To me, there is something superbly symbolic in the fact that an astronaut, sent up as assistant to a series of computers, found that he worked more accurately and more intelligently than they. Inside the capsule, man is still in charge.

The symbolic language of the crucifixion is the death of the old paradigm resurrection is a leap into a whole new way of thinking.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

As is known, it is in the realm of experience inaugurated by psychoanalysis that we may grasp along what imaginary lines the human organism, in the most intimate recesses of its being, manifests its capture in a symbolic dimension.

Men do not have to cook their food they do so for symbolic reasons to show they are men and not beasts.

One can hardly be Indian and not know that almost every accent, which hand you eat your food with, has some deeper symbolic truth, reality.

I wished to go completely outside and to make a symbolic start for my enterprise of regenerating the life of humankind within the body of society and to prepare a positive future in this context.

A lot of people, because of my contempt for the false consolations of religion, think of me as a symbolic public opponent of that in extremis. And sometimes that makes me feel a bit alarmed, to be the repository of other people's hope.

For all their current prestige, Osama bin Laden and the suicide bombers are still regarded in all but the most desperate districts of Gaza or Peshawar as romantics with little chance of more than symbolic victories, however bloody and brutal. That gives both the Middle East and the West a small and distant hope of security.

I've become invested with this symbolic power. It really does transcend what I'm actually doing and what I actually deserve.

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