Totemic

/təʊˈtɛmɪk/

Synonyms for "totemic" (12 found)

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Closest matches (3)

Adjective(1 words)

Strong matches (3)

Adjective(1 words)

Related words (6)

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

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cultural symbolsymbolic attribute

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ancestral figureclan emblemnationalistictribal

Collocations

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totemic authoritytotemic representationtotemic ritualtotemic statustotemic symbol

Inflections

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more totemicmost totemic

Derivations

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Sample sentences

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Tatoeba + Wiktionary

Many Brexit supporters saw regaining control of the country’s sovereign waters as totemic.

Source: tatoeba (9698848)

The Australian Aborigines are Animistic. They live in the vast, empty, hot desert Down Under. The Dreamtime is the sacred era when ancestral totemic spirit beings created the world. The Aborigines are full of their mysterious stories. The Dreaming may refer to a tribe's set of spiritual beliefs or to the Creation Time itself. There are the Kangaroo Dreaming, the Shark Dreaming, and so on. The Amerindians of the Americas are similarly full of Animistic beliefs.

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The Lithuanian director escaped the Nazis and moved to New York, where he became a totemic figure for artists including Andy Warhol and John Lennon[.]

Source: wiktionary

Hunt also refused to rule out cuts to totemic Conservative pledges, including defence spending and the pensions triple lock.

Source: wiktionary

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