ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Salonical

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Salonical is an adjective meaning (obsolete) Intellectually pretentious.

Meaning

(obsolete) Intellectually pretentious.

Example Sentences

If the book was not clever and amusing, we should not refer to these matters, nor to such epithets as “swanking ” and “salonical.”
Beside all that, I know your salonical divinity well enough. A woman everlastingly sole-sitting, not on the shore of old romance, but on the brink of hysterical mania.
...in between these ghastly sonatas and things the Orders and Decorations could stand about like animated waxworks and discuss the Housing of the People Act and your bromidical hunting-stuff in the usual salonical way, but of course anybody who was too alientated could creep off into Arcadia, where my dear the commisariat was sausages, vulgar my dear but quite hot, with mash and everything,.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include intellectual, pseudointellectual, pseudo-intellectual, sophistic, pseudosophisticated, aristophrenic.

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