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Type Words
Synonyms symbolical
Derivation symbol


symbolic logic.
symbolic operations.
symbolic thinking.
Type Words
Synonyms emblematic, emblematical, symbolical
Derivation symbol


the spinning wheel was as symbolic of colonical Massachusetts as the codfish.
Type Words


symbolic art.

Examples of symbolic

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Lee then ran to the center circle and fired a symbolic arrow into the night sky.
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If we want the world to look at us differently, this symbolic issue must change.
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The decision is of enormous strategic and symbolic importance to both countries.
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For a symbolic finish, he lifted the guitar and flung it against the amplifiers.
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The family hasn't had power since 1918 but has a symbolic role in national life.
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The gesture seemed symbolic of the support for Lincoln among Northern Democrats.
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Chicago campus student trustee James Winters says the savings would be symbolic.
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The lasting image, the most symbolic image of Stewart, wasn't from Victory Lane.
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The new Jaguar XJ, unveiled in June, is symbolic of the problems Tata is facing.
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  • Relating to or using or proceeding by means of symbols; "symbolic logic"; "symbolic operations"; "symbolic thinking"
  • Emblematic: 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"
  • (symbolism) an artistic movement in the late 19th century that tried to express abstract or mystical ideas through the symbolic use of images
  • (symbolization) symbol: something visible that by association or convention represents something else that is invisible; "the eagle is a symbol of the United States"
  • Symbolic is the sixth album by American death metal band Death. The album was released on March 21, 1995 through Roadrunner Records. The album was remastered and reissued on April 1, 2008 with five bonus tracks.
  • Symbolic is the Voodoo Glow Skulls' fifth full-length album. It was released on September 12, 2000 on Epitaph Records. This album marks the last appearance of the creator of the VGS horn style, Helios J Hernandez. Track 14 is a cover of the song "I Shot The Sheriff" from Bob Marley. ...
  • The Symbolic order is a part of the psychoanalytic theory of Jacques Lacan, part of his attempt 'to distinguish between those elementary registers whose grounding I later put forward in these terms: the symbolic, the imaginary, and the real - a distinction never previously made in psychoanalysis' .
  • Symbolics refers to two companies: now-defunct computer manufacturer Symbolics, Inc., and a privately held company that acquired the assets of the former company and continues to sell and maintain the Open Genera Lisp system and the Macsyma computer algebra system.
  • (Symbolism (arts)) Symbolism was a late nineteenth-century art movement of French and Belgian origin in poetry and other arts. In literature, the movement had its roots in Les Fleurs du mal (The Flowers of Evil, 1857) by Charles Baudelaire. ...