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symblematic

symblematic adjective: emblematic or characteristic.

Adjective

symblematic (comparative more symblematic, superlative most symblematic)

  1. (nonstandard) Emblematic or characteristic.
    • Sir, keep your plans; and if in secrecy they will work the end desired, if they will place the cross-bars of the Confederation among the symblematic emblems of independent nations, guard them, with all the wisdom of your suspecting nature, and treasure them, in the most sacred place of your...1914, William Alfred Luby, J. Wilkes Booth; or, The national tragedy. An original tragedy, in five acts"
    • standing at bar, wearing outfit symblematic of the Dutch; liquor bottle in foreground; identical to 2009-NLF-019-1212011, Gerald R. Ford presidential library, Ford Family Photos

Forms of symblematic

comparativemore symblematic
superlativemost symblematic
alternative formsymblomatic

Origin of symblematic

Blend of symbolic + emblematic or of symptomatic + emblematic.

Questions about symblematic

What does symblematic mean?
Symblematic means emblematic or characteristic.
What part of speech is symblematic?
Symblematic is an adjective.

Words near symblematic in the dictionary

  1. symbiotyped
  2. symbiotypes
  3. symbiotyping
  4. symbiovar
  5. symbiovars
  6. symblematic
  7. symblephara
  8. symblepharon
  9. symblepharonlysis
  10. symblepharons
  11. symblomatic

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