Gnomic

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Gnomic \Gnom"ic\, Gnomical \Gnom"ic*al\, a. [Gr. ?, fr. ?: cf.
     F. gnomique. See {Gnome} maxim.]
     Sententious; uttering or containing maxims, or striking
     detached thoughts; aphoristic.
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           A city long famous as the seat of elegiac and gnomic
           poetry.                                  --G. R. Lewes.
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     {Gnomic Poets}, Greek poets, as Theognis and Solon, of the
        sixth century B. C., whose writings consist of short
        sententious precepts and reflections.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  gnomic
       adj : relating to or containing gnomes; "gnomic verse"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  44 Moby Thesaurus words for "gnomic":
     Spartan, abbreviated, abridged, aphoristic, aposiopestic,
     axiomatic, brief, brusque, clipped, close, compact, compendious,
     compressed, concise, condensed, contracted, crisp, curt, cut,
     docked, elliptic, epigrammatic, formulaic, formulistic, laconic,
     pithy, platitudinous, pointed, proverbial, pruned, pungent,
     reserved, sententious, short, short and sweet, shortened, succinct,
     summary, synopsized, taciturn, terse, tight, to the point,
     truncated