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symbolic

  • adjective
  • sym·bo·lic

Pertaining to a symbol.

Other meanings

  1. Implicitly representing or referring to another thing.

    “a symbolic gesture”

Related words

  • ethnosymbolic
  • symbolic interactionism
  • sound-symbolic
  • antisymbolic
  • asymbolic
  • concolic
  • multisymbolic
  • neurosymbolic
  • nonsymbolic
  • postsymbolic
  • presymbolic
  • shambolic

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