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gnomic
Alternative clues for the word gnomic
- Try studio device, introducing note of concise form
- Setter's in deceitful activity, finally offering up cryptic
- Containing aphorisms
- First day smoke rings rising, mysterious and seemingly wise
- Enigmatic, ambiguous
- Like an elf
- Expressed in short, witty aphorisms
- Try to bag new sound device that's hard to get
Word definitions for gnomic in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. relating to or containing gnomes; "gnomic verse"
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"full of instructive sayings," 1815, from French gnomique (18c.) and directly from Late Latin gnomicus "concerned with maxims, didactic," from Greek gnomikos , from gnome "thought, opinion, maxim, intelligence," from root of gignoskein "to come to know" ...
Usage examples of gnomic.
Besides, as Brockle Buhn went on to explain, Mugza was the gnomic equivalent of a duke.
They were all traditional verses, mostly on cloacal subjects, but it was somehow warming to find that verse was still in regard for its gnomic or mnemonic properties.
I passed sorcerers with machetes that crackled with flames in the morning light, making sacrifices at dawn of red cocks, who poured gnomic chants on the untrodden roads.
Gnomic features were dark with anger, but Traunt Rowan merely shrugged.
Such poems are a kind of rhyming proverb, and it is a fact that definitely popular poetry is usually gnomic or sententious.
Brilliant apercus, gnomic sayings, flights of fervid eloquence, infinitely suggestive reflections – of these there is enough and to spare.