Related to, or consisting of, symbols
“Each shield was painted with symbolic designs and decorated with feathers and fur.”
Serving to indicate, signify or represent something
“He holds a book that is symbolic of his active life as a rhetorician and preacher.”
Serving as a figurative or allegorical symbol
“The exploration and searching of the butterfly may be symbolic of the poet's search for an explanation or a meaning for the death of someone close to him.”
Being a representative model or example of (something)
Relating to visual art, especially involving imagery or pictures
Well-known from anecdotes and stories rather than experience
Relating to or denoting art that does not attempt to represent external reality directly
Characteristic or, or particular to, someone or something
Being, or existing as, something in name only
Having an imaginative or sensitively emotional style of expression
Serving as an example or explanation
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