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symbolical

/sim-bol-ik/US // sɪmˈbɒl ɪk //UK // (sɪmˈbɒlɪk) //

象征性的,符号性的,象征性,符号化的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : serving as a symbol of something.
    • : of, relating to, or expressed by a symbol.
    • : characterized by or involving the use of symbols: a highly symbolic poem.
    • : pertaining to a class of words that express only relations.Compare notional.
    • : Computers. expressed in characters, usually nonnumeric, that require translation before they can be used.

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Examples

  • The financial terms were largely symbolic as Purdue Pharma’s bankruptcy has put it deeply in debt and its earnings from OxyContin have plunged.

  • Sadly, Puerto Rico is an island full of symbolic laws, which are usually ignored by law enforcement authorities and have no consequences.

  • Closing off the Capitol would be an enormous symbolic victory for the insurrectionists.

  • Wednesday’s Board of Supervisors meeting is symbolic in that the county is essentially opening the floor to new supervisors and the public who have other ideas to reach this target.

  • Tokyo 2020 will be symbolic to prove that people, all together from across the world, have defeated the virus.

  • Bridging the divide between the police and those who distrust them will take more than protests and symbolic gestures.

  • Your death is symbolic of the harsh reality facing so many of us.

  • Along the way, he accidentally embeds a nail in his foot, which is not symbolic at all.

  • But the amendment was non-binding -- and thus largely symbolic.

  • She lost that claim long ago, but her symbolic importance has only grown.

  • In like manner the mouth, from being a bare symbolic indication, gradually takes on form and likeness.

  • This element of symbolic indication will be found to run through the whole of childish drawing.

  • The celebrant sprinkled the victim with wine and salted cake, and made a symbolic gesture with the knife.

  • Because of its recumbent position, symbolic of General Lee resting on a battlefield cot, this statue is considered most unique.

  • If she was no longer a symbolic and sympathetic figure—like that young mother among her children—she had her own claims.