Even people who don't believe in the Catholic church venerate the Pope as a symbolic leader.
Source: tatoeba (1940)
Symbolic
Synonyms for "symbolic" (85 found)
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Closest matches (17)
Strong matches (26)
Adjective(2 words)
Related words (42)
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Synonyms
1 entriesRelated terms
9 entriesderived
27 entriesShowing 16 of 27 words.
related to
10 entriessimilar
1 entriesTranslations
66 translations across 35 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- simbolik adj (implicitly referring to another thing)
Armenian
2 entries- խորհրդանշական adj (pertaining to a symbol)
- խորհրդանշական adj (implicitly referring to another thing)
Asturian
1 entries- simbólicu adj (implicitly referring to another thing)
Bengali
4 entries- প্রতীকী adj (pertaining to a symbol)
- প্রতীকী adj (implicitly referring to another thing)
- সাংকেতিক adj (pertaining to a symbol)
- সাংকেতিক adj (implicitly referring to another thing)
Bulgarian
2 entries- символичен adj (pertaining to a symbol)
- символичен adj (implicitly referring to another thing)
Catalan
2 entries- simbòlic adj (pertaining to a symbol)
- simbòlic adj (implicitly referring to another thing)
Czech
1 entries- symbolický adj (pertaining to a symbol)
Dutch
1 entries- symbolisch adj (pertaining to a symbol)
Esperanto
1 entries- simbola adj (pertaining to a symbol)
Estonian
2 entries- sümboolne adj (pertaining to a symbol)
- tähistav adj (implicitly referring to another thing)
Finnish
2 entries- symbolinen adj (pertaining to a symbol)
- vertauskuvallinen adj (implicitly referring to another thing)
French
2 entries- symbolique adj (pertaining to a symbol)
- symbolique adj (implicitly referring to another thing)
Galician
1 entries- simbólico adj (pertaining to a symbol)
German
3 entries- symbolisch adj (pertaining to a symbol)
- symbolisch adj (implicitly referring to another thing)
- symbolträchtig adj (implicitly referring to another thing)
Hebrew
4 entries- סימבולי adj (implicitly referring to another thing)
- סימבולית adj (implicitly referring to another thing)
- סמלי adj (pertaining to a symbol)
- סמלי adj (implicitly referring to another thing)
Hindi
3 entries- प्रतीकात्मक adj (implicitly referring to another thing)
- सांकेतिक adj (pertaining to a symbol)
- सांकेतिक adj (implicitly referring to another thing)
Hungarian
2 entries- jelképes adj (implicitly referring to another thing)
- szimbolikus adj (implicitly referring to another thing)
Kazakh
3 entries- символдық adj (pertaining to a symbol)
- символикалық adj (pertaining to a symbol)
- таңбалық adj (pertaining to a symbol)
Latvian
2 entries- simbolisks adj (pertaining to a symbol)
- simbolisks adj (implicitly referring to another thing)
Lithuanian
2 entries- simbòlinis adj (implicitly referring to another thing)
- simbòliškas adj (implicitly referring to another thing)
Macedonian
1 entries- симболичен adj (pertaining to a symbol)
Malayalam
1 entries- പ്രതീകാത്മക adj (implicitly referring to another thing)
Northern Kurdish
2 entries- remzî adj (pertaining to a symbol)
- sembolîk adj (pertaining to a symbol)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- symbolsk adj (pertaining to a symbol)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- symbolsk adj (pertaining to a symbol)
Polish
1 entries- symboliczny adj (pertaining to a symbol)
Portuguese
3 entries- simbólico adj (pertaining to a symbol)
- simbólico adj (pertaining to a symbol)
- simbólico adj (implicitly referring to another thing)
Romanian
2 entries- simbolic adj (pertaining to a symbol)
- simbolic adj (implicitly referring to another thing)
Russian
1 entries- символи́ческий adj (pertaining to a symbol)
Scottish Gaelic
2 entries- samhlachail adj (pertaining to a symbol)
- samhlachail adj (implicitly referring to another thing)
Serbo-Croatian
1 entries- simbòličan adj (implicitly referring to another thing)
Slovene
1 entries- simbóličen adj (implicitly referring to another thing)
Spanish
2 entries- simbólico adj (pertaining to a symbol)
- simbólico adj (implicitly referring to another thing)
Ukrainian
2 entries- символі́чний adj (pertaining to a symbol)
- символі́чний adj (implicitly referring to another thing)
Yiddish
2 entries- סימבאָליש adj (pertaining to a symbol)
- סימבאָליש adj (implicitly referring to another thing)
Sample sentences
13 total sentences available.
The dismissal of foreign minister Tanaka is symbolic of the continuing political turmoil.
Source: tatoeba (327868)
Might it happen to be a large symbolic grove of trees?
Source: tatoeba (1128733)
So far, the impact of the BDS movement is more symbolic than economic.
Source: tatoeba (6963939)
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