Symphoric
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Symphoric is an adjective meaning Relating to or involving symphoria (any sense).
Meaning
Relating to or involving symphoria (any sense).
More Meanings
- (archaic, rare) Clumsy; accident-prone.
Example Sentences
"Just unhook it and come on down. It’s very simple I assure you, old fellow. And perfectly safe unless you are symphoric perhaps."
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?
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.
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!
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include lumbering, clumsy, heavy-handed, bumbly, ponderous, clouterly.
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