Gnomic \Gnom"ic\, Gnomical \Gnom"ic*al\, a. [Gr. ?, fr. ?: cf.
F. gnomique. See Gnome maxim.]
Sententious; uttering or containing maxims, or striking
detached thoughts; aphoristic.
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A city long famous as the seat of elegiac and gnomic
poetry. --G. R. Lewes.
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Gnomic Poets, Greek poets, as Theognis and Solon, of the
sixth century B. C., whose writings consist of short
sententious precepts and reflections.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
gnomic
adj : relating to or containing gnomes; "gnomic verse"
WordNet (r) 2.0
44 Moby Thesaurus words for "gnomic":
Spartan, abbreviated, abridged, aphoristic, aposiopestic,
axiomatic, brief, brusque, clipped, close, compact, compendious,
compressed, concise, condensed, contracted, crisp, curt, cut,
docked, elliptic, epigrammatic, formulaic, formulistic, laconic,
pithy, platitudinous, pointed, proverbial, pruned, pungent,
reserved, sententious, short, short and sweet, shortened, succinct,
summary, synopsized, taciturn, terse, tight, to the point,
truncated
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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