symbolic · Contextualize

Etymology

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

derived from σύμβολον
derived from symbolus
derived from symbole
formed as symbolic — “symbol + -ic”

Definitions

Pertaining to a symbol.
2
Implicitly representing or referring to another thing.
- a symbolic gesture
- They viewed the power shift and diversity as a symbolic but meaningful rebuke of the Islamophobic rhetoric that was a central theme of then Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s campaign.
- As a sign-off, they played the video for 1979 new wave classic, a symbolic choice at it was also the first video that MTV ever aired when it launched in the US in 1981.

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Derived

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

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at symbolic. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

A definitional loop anchored at symbolic. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at symbolic

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