symbolically

English

Etymology

From symbolical +‎ -ly or symbolic +‎ -ally.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌsɪmˈbɒlɪklɪ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌsɪmˈbɑːlɪklɪ/

Adverb

symbolically (comparative more symbolically, superlative most symbolically)

1. In a symbolic manner.
   • 2019 December 31, AJ Willingham, “All the trends we loved and hated in the 2010s”, in CNN‎:

     Haha, memes are funny! Until they totally become racist. Pepe the Frog lived a very normal meme life right up until online trolls turned him into a green thing of hate in 2016. It got so bad his creator symbolically killed him off in 2017.

2. By means of symbols or a symbol.
3. As symbols or a symbol.
   • 2003 Summer, Kristin Henrard, “Post-Apartheid South Africa: Transformation and Reconciliation”, in World Affairs, volume 166, number 1, page 37:

     In the end, the deadlock was resolved by a minor -- but for the National Party symbolically important -- addition to one of the other subsections of the language clause.

Related terms

• symbol
• symbolic
• symbolical

Translations

in a symbolic manner

Afrikaans: simbolies Catalan: simbòlicament (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 象征 (zh) (xiàngzhēng) Czech: symbolicky Danish: symbolsk Dutch: symbolisch (nl) Finnish: symbolisesti (fi) French: symboliquement (fr) Galician: simbolicamente German: symbolisch (de) Hungarian: jelképesen (hu), szimbolikusan Icelandic: táknrænt Italian: simbolicamente (it) Korean: 상징 (ko) (sangjing) Latin: symbolice, sumbolice Lithuanian: simboliškai Malay: simbolik Polish: symbolicznie (pl) Portuguese: simbolicamente Romanian: simbolic (ro) Russian: символически (ru) (simvoličeski) Spanish: simbólicamente (es) Swahili: mfano (sw) Turkish: sembolik (tr) Ukrainian: символі́чно (symvolíčno) Vietnamese: tượng trưng (vi) Welsh: symbolaidd (cy)