Meaning

(archaic, rare) Clumsy; accident-prone..

Definitions by Sense

1. (archaic, rare) Clumsy; accident-prone.
2. Relating to or involving symphoria (any sense).

Example Sentences

Who would have endured in this place to have seen two such words as the phthano-paranomic or crime-preventing, and the phthano-symphoric or calamity-preventing, branches of the police?

Walk a mile in my snowshoes, I say, before you deal thus harshly with a poor, unfortunate symphoric nyctalopian, come at the dwindling twilight of his life to a state of repentance and hiatus hernia. Ah, you nullifidians, you!

"Just unhook it and come on down. It’s very simple I assure you, old fellow. And perfectly safe unless you are symphoric perhaps."

Both the symphoric (integrational) phase of the metaphysical, namely ‘mediation’ (cf. ⑥ and ?⃝) and our intermodal triad, termed ‘module’, derive from templates as ancient as the fundamental PH-PX asymmetry and the fundamental PX-SZ asymmetry. All of metaphysics is ultimately aimed at mediating between immortal PH and mortal PX.

Senn’s paper on “Symphoric Joyce” queried where the pun begins and ends and noted the “symphoric” quality of Joyce’s writing—bringing various nodes of signification together in the text.

Word Forms

• more symphoric
• most symphoric

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When Should You Use Symphoric?

Use symphoric when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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