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Synonyms for sound-symbolic

  • adjective

Most common

phono-semantic mimological phonaesthetic ideophonic expressive imitative

Synonyms by meaning

Adjective

1. Mimological — characterized by sound symbolism

phono-semantic, mimological, phonaesthetic, ideophonic

2. Expressive — characterized by sound symbolism (of a unit of sound or meaning such as a word, morpheme, phoneme, syllable…

expressive, imitative

Definitions

  1. adj. 1

    characterized by sound symbolism

  2. adj. 2

    characterized by sound symbolism (of a unit of sound or meaning such as a word, morpheme, phoneme, syllable, etc.) composed of speech sounds that are not arbitrary but also not overtly onomatopoeic

Example sentences

  • expressive Sometimes gestures are more expressive than speech.
  • imitative He is imitative of other artists.

By length

9 letters
imitative4
10 letters
expressive3, ideophonic
11 letters
mimological
13 letters
phonaesthetic

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (imitative4 = 4 syllables).