symbolic

形容词 adj.

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Pertaining to a symbol.
    — Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic […]. Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. When a series of bank failures made this impossible, there was widespread anger, leading to the public humiliation of symbolic figures.
  2. Implicitly representing or referring to another thing.
    — a symbolic gesture

词形变化

more symbolic comparative most symbolic superlative

词源

From French symbolique or directly from Latin symbolicus, from Ancient Greek συμβολικός (sumbolikós, “of or belonging to a symbol”), equivalent to symbol + -ic.
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