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semaphoric

semaphoric adjective: using semaphore.

Adjective

semaphoric (comparative more semaphoric, superlative most semaphoric)

  1. using semaphore
  2. involving waving the arms, as if using semaphore
    • He was standing as he spoke, emphasising his periods with semaphoric motions of his right arm.1913, Horace Annesley Vachell, Bunch Grass
    • This is a cerebral take on the way hundreds of other movies have defined hysteria rather than any form of observation, a semaphoric set of signals designed to represent hysteria rather than embody it.2002 November 8, Jonathan Rosenbaum, “Master Thief”, in Chicago Reader

Forms of semaphoric

comparativemore semaphoric
superlativemost semaphoric

Origin of semaphoric

From semaphore + -ic.

Words formed from semaphoric

Questions about semaphoric

What does semaphoric mean?
Semaphoric means using semaphore.
What part of speech is semaphoric?
Semaphoric is an adjective.

Words near semaphoric in the dictionary

  1. semaphore signals
  2. semaphored
  3. semaphores
  4. semaphoretic
  5. semaphoretical
  6. semaphoric
  7. semaphorical
  8. semaphorically
  9. semaphorin
  10. semaphorine
  11. semaphorines

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