sound-symbolic

== English == === Alternative forms === sound symbolic === Etymology === From sound symbolism +‎ -ic. === Adjective === sound-symbolic (not comparable) (linguistics, phonology) characterized by sound symbolism Synonyms: (sometimes) expressive, ideophonic, imitative, mimological, phonaesthetic, phonosemantic (more specifically) (of a unit of sound or meaning such as a word, morpheme, phoneme, syllable, etc.) composed of speech sounds that are not arbitrary but also not overtly onomatopoeic ==== Hyponyms ==== expressive ideophonic (non-arbitrary): onomatopoeic (see there for its synonyms) phonesthemic