What does gnomic mean?
Gnomic means Of, or relating to gnomes (sententious sayings)..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
Of, or relating to gnomes (sententious sayings)..
His birth-place was Colophon, an Ionian city of Asia-Minor; a city long famous as the seat of elegiac and gnomic poetry, and ranking the poet Minmermus amongst its celebrated men.
Old English culture was threaded through with riddles, cryptograms, gnomic verses, charms and riddling modes of speech such as litotes, just as Modern English culture is (if you will forgive me) riddled with jokes and catch-phrases, crosswords and quizzes, irony and sarcasm.
He always makes gnomic utterances.
The gnomic belief that the world is conditioned by love is no idle apothegm.
In his part gnomic, part mechanic’s style, Mr. Pirsig’s narrator declares that the real world is a seamless continuum of the material and metaphysical.
[…] on other parts of the whiteboard, she'd written more gnomic prompts (“Food area,” “Objects,” “Substances”).
gnomic aspect
Use gnomic when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Gnomic means Of, or relating to gnomes (sententious sayings)..
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His birth-place was Colophon, an Ionian city of Asia-Minor; a city long famous as the seat of elegiac and gnomic poetry, and ranking the poet Minmermus amongst its celebrated men.
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