symbolic

Synonyms for symbolic

adj representative

adjective. suggestive

adjective. provoking doubt

c.1600 (implied in symbolically); see symbol + -ic.

Here, perhaps, may be found the symbolic clue to the strife's cause.

Byron was a symbolic figure, but his relations were to the passion of his age and its weariness of passion.

I was a man who stood in symbolic relations to the art and culture of my age.

I have said of myself that I was one who stood in symbolic relations to the art and culture of my age.

She would meet him at that symbolic bough: there be rendered the Judgment of the Years!

There is a sense in which it is impossible to value too highly the formal and the symbolic.

The pure, sweet dawn, to him symbolic of Resurrection and Life!

This is the dream, at once simple and symbolic, which begins to worry Khalid.

An apparition like her has no need, thank heaven, of your symbolic mummery.

I don't know why he should always have appeared to me symbolic.