Definition of gnomic in English:

gnomic

adjective ˈnəʊmɪkˈnoʊmɪk

1Expressed in or of the nature of short, pithy maxims or aphorisms.
格言警句式的；精辟的
that most gnomic form, the aphorism
那种最精辟的形式，格言。
Example sentencesExamples
- He did not go on to explain his position in any detail, but he did not have to; his neo-colonial patronisation illuminated despite his gnomic brevity.
- Malraux's own prose could be oracular, gnomic and mannered, but it never, ever, sounded like a series of captions to a photo spread in Paris Match.
- In an introductory note to the teacher, he says wryly that ‘Much of the commentary has been kept sufficiently gnomic not to impede the teacher who wants to modify or dissent from it,’ and such a note is borne out by what follows.
- It begins with typical examples of the brief gnomic phrases that were to become a hallmark of Franck's style.
- The phrases evoke both the portentousness of a movie script and the gnomic meter of haiku.
- These law professors can be succinct, not to say gnomic, not to say utterly obscure.
- The meaning of this gnomic utterance still eludes me.
- We hear iambs, trochees, Virgil's hexameters, the Norse alliterative lines, each arranged in their various couplets, quatrains, choric stanzas, gnomic verses, and much more besides.
- This area will be reserved for shorter, more gnomic utterances, hopefully enigmatic and curt enough to conceal the arrant imbecility that will have spawned them.
- Both had a taste for gnomic, abstract verse - a taste that buds forth in these letters.
- As I approach the end of her post, the following gnomic thought pushes itself towards the front of my brain and refuses to budge: borders only delineate states of mind.
- But he doesn't ramble or rant; instead, he suggests vast conceptual contradictions in gnomic, comic haikus.
- Despite this, Marxists have spent more than a century mining his texts in order to piece together otherwise disparate, and often gnomic, comments and asides on capitalism and nature.
- Such writing inevitably takes the form of short fragmentary and often gnomic utterance.
- DeLillo's characters have often talked in epigrams or gnomic utterances; now these have a future-shock fatalism about them.
- Sporting a permanently pained expression and the hunched demeanour of a child expecting a smack, he speaks in gnomic aphorisms that frequently sound like bumper-sticker mottoes.
- He had a talent for self-advertisement and had built himself up into a picturesque figure given to gnomic utterances about his own significance in the world.
- The neglect of the public realm was presided over and encouraged by an ossifying Conservative administration, while the Prince of Wales made gnomic pronouncements on the sidelines.
- A large obelisk north of the village, erected in 1823, offers the gnomic advice that kings should not strain their prerogatives nor subjects rebel.
- In The Approach, a mostly white painting with edges of yellow-gold, a mystical luminosity is supported by a gnomic title.
Synonyms
concise, succinct, terse, pithy, aphoristic, compact, condensed, compressed, short, brief
1. 1.1 Difficult to understand because enigmatic or ambiguous.
  I had to have the gnomic response interpreted for me
  我得让人给我解释一下这个莫名其妙的答复。
  Example sentencesExamples
  His compositions were elevated and formal, distinguished by the boldness of their metaphors and a marked reliance on myth and gnomic utterance.
  Such gnomic utterances are no use to policymakers.
  By this time I knew her well enough to understand this gnomic, seemingly banal statement.
  These gnomic texts serve as a kind of decentering device, forcing the viewer to abandon traditional notions of meaning and enter into Dittborn's symbolic world.
  Any self-respecting philosopher ought to be prepared with some gnomic sayings that can bear several interpretations, at least some of them scandalous.
  Even his private comments grew much more guarded as the work itself became increasingly gnomic and resistant to interpretation.
  There are a few gnomic statements, for example ‘stable isotope discrimination is therefore defined as enzyme-mediated fractionation’.
  What is missing, he argues, is an acknowledgement of the history of delay, prevarication, demands for clarification, gnomic utterances, false trails, garden paths and double-speak by the republican leadership.
  We are not far from Carl Andre's floor pieces and his gnomic remark ‘A thing is a hole in a thing it is not,’ which points toward an idea of sculpture as a rupture in the continuum of space.
  The collection ends with a typically gnomic pronouncement from Jean-Luc Godard entitled Dans le Noir du Temps which disinters fragments of his old films as part of what is apparently a fiercely grim ongoing farewell to cinema.
  His style, too, is often tortuous and gnomic, and it can be almost impossible to see what he actually means, as the endless discussions of his analysis of the causes of the war show.
  This may seem impossibly gnomic, and it is certainly complicated to decipher, but its main arguments are clear enough.
  Sentences are thrown out which, because they lack aesthetic context, must seem gnomic to any but the unnaturally well-informed.
  Leconte deepens and enriches the situation by having Faber consult the real psychoanalyst in the office next door, who gives him gnomic advice and a large bill.
  The lyrics at times become too obscure and in some places descend into gnomic utterance.
  Many of her speeches could sound pretentiously gnomic, or ramblingly incoherent.
  In any case, there is always more entertainment to come, courtesy of Jose's gnomic post-match pronouncements.
  The precise scope of this responsibility remains as gnomic as in the 1964 version, but the symbolism is obvious.
  Even more gnomic and less rewarding was those liner notes' unreadable amplification in his ‘novel’ - ah, remember when the term ‘novel’ conferred cachet?
  Such tangled connections are how all this book's stories mesh: as found texts, remembered movies and gnomic cross-references.
  Synonyms
  ambiguous, equivocal, dual, two-edged, ambivalent, open to debate, open to argument, arguable, debatable

Derivatives

gnomically

adverb

‘You'll simply never understand the true nature of sacrifice,’ Rowan's mum says gnomically to Howie.
Example sentencesExamples
- Academics should begin by considering the Occidentalist ideas that have been handed down to them, in gnomically convoluted prose, by the biggest philosopher of the 20th century: Martin Heidegger.
- ‘True,’ Isaiah would gnomically reply, ‘but at a deeper level.’
- ‘The partnership will be, however, be an effective campaigning and administrative team that's a result of one plus one equals two,’ Soong said gnomically.
- On the centre's website, Hunter states gnomically: ‘If you accept that you should give a hungry man a fishing rod, not a fish, then confidence underpins his ability to use that fishing rod.’

Origin

Early 19th century: from Greek gnōmikos (perhaps via French gnomique), from gnōmē 'thought, judgement', (plural) gnōmai 'sayings, maxims', related to gignōskein 'know'.

Rhymes

monochromic, ohmic, photochromic

Definition of gnomic in US English:

gnomic

adjectiveˈnōmikˈnoʊmɪk

1Expressed in or of the nature of short, pithy maxims or aphorisms.
格言警句式的；精辟的
that most gnomic form, the aphorism
那种最精辟的形式，格言。
Example sentencesExamples
- A large obelisk north of the village, erected in 1823, offers the gnomic advice that kings should not strain their prerogatives nor subjects rebel.
- Despite this, Marxists have spent more than a century mining his texts in order to piece together otherwise disparate, and often gnomic, comments and asides on capitalism and nature.
- The neglect of the public realm was presided over and encouraged by an ossifying Conservative administration, while the Prince of Wales made gnomic pronouncements on the sidelines.
- The meaning of this gnomic utterance still eludes me.
- Sporting a permanently pained expression and the hunched demeanour of a child expecting a smack, he speaks in gnomic aphorisms that frequently sound like bumper-sticker mottoes.
- Such writing inevitably takes the form of short fragmentary and often gnomic utterance.
- DeLillo's characters have often talked in epigrams or gnomic utterances; now these have a future-shock fatalism about them.
- In an introductory note to the teacher, he says wryly that ‘Much of the commentary has been kept sufficiently gnomic not to impede the teacher who wants to modify or dissent from it,’ and such a note is borne out by what follows.
- The phrases evoke both the portentousness of a movie script and the gnomic meter of haiku.
- In The Approach, a mostly white painting with edges of yellow-gold, a mystical luminosity is supported by a gnomic title.
- This area will be reserved for shorter, more gnomic utterances, hopefully enigmatic and curt enough to conceal the arrant imbecility that will have spawned them.
- As I approach the end of her post, the following gnomic thought pushes itself towards the front of my brain and refuses to budge: borders only delineate states of mind.
- It begins with typical examples of the brief gnomic phrases that were to become a hallmark of Franck's style.
- Malraux's own prose could be oracular, gnomic and mannered, but it never, ever, sounded like a series of captions to a photo spread in Paris Match.
- He had a talent for self-advertisement and had built himself up into a picturesque figure given to gnomic utterances about his own significance in the world.
- He did not go on to explain his position in any detail, but he did not have to; his neo-colonial patronisation illuminated despite his gnomic brevity.
- Both had a taste for gnomic, abstract verse - a taste that buds forth in these letters.
- But he doesn't ramble or rant; instead, he suggests vast conceptual contradictions in gnomic, comic haikus.
- These law professors can be succinct, not to say gnomic, not to say utterly obscure.
- We hear iambs, trochees, Virgil's hexameters, the Norse alliterative lines, each arranged in their various couplets, quatrains, choric stanzas, gnomic verses, and much more besides.
Synonyms
concise, succinct, terse, pithy, aphoristic, compact, condensed, compressed, short, brief
1. 1.1 Enigmatic; ambiguous.
  令人费解的；含糊不清的
  I had to have the gnomic response interpreted for me
  我得让人给我解释一下这个莫名其妙的答复。
  Example sentencesExamples
  What is missing, he argues, is an acknowledgement of the history of delay, prevarication, demands for clarification, gnomic utterances, false trails, garden paths and double-speak by the republican leadership.
  By this time I knew her well enough to understand this gnomic, seemingly banal statement.
  Such gnomic utterances are no use to policymakers.
  In any case, there is always more entertainment to come, courtesy of Jose's gnomic post-match pronouncements.
  Sentences are thrown out which, because they lack aesthetic context, must seem gnomic to any but the unnaturally well-informed.
  Such tangled connections are how all this book's stories mesh: as found texts, remembered movies and gnomic cross-references.
  Many of her speeches could sound pretentiously gnomic, or ramblingly incoherent.
  Even his private comments grew much more guarded as the work itself became increasingly gnomic and resistant to interpretation.
  The collection ends with a typically gnomic pronouncement from Jean-Luc Godard entitled Dans le Noir du Temps which disinters fragments of his old films as part of what is apparently a fiercely grim ongoing farewell to cinema.
  These gnomic texts serve as a kind of decentering device, forcing the viewer to abandon traditional notions of meaning and enter into Dittborn's symbolic world.
  The lyrics at times become too obscure and in some places descend into gnomic utterance.
  His style, too, is often tortuous and gnomic, and it can be almost impossible to see what he actually means, as the endless discussions of his analysis of the causes of the war show.
  There are a few gnomic statements, for example ‘stable isotope discrimination is therefore defined as enzyme-mediated fractionation’.
  This may seem impossibly gnomic, and it is certainly complicated to decipher, but its main arguments are clear enough.
  Any self-respecting philosopher ought to be prepared with some gnomic sayings that can bear several interpretations, at least some of them scandalous.
  Even more gnomic and less rewarding was those liner notes' unreadable amplification in his ‘novel’ - ah, remember when the term ‘novel’ conferred cachet?
  We are not far from Carl Andre's floor pieces and his gnomic remark ‘A thing is a hole in a thing it is not,’ which points toward an idea of sculpture as a rupture in the continuum of space.
  Leconte deepens and enriches the situation by having Faber consult the real psychoanalyst in the office next door, who gives him gnomic advice and a large bill.
  The precise scope of this responsibility remains as gnomic as in the 1964 version, but the symbolism is obvious.
  His compositions were elevated and formal, distinguished by the boldness of their metaphors and a marked reliance on myth and gnomic utterance.
  Synonyms
  ambiguous, equivocal, dual, two-edged, ambivalent, open to debate, open to argument, arguable, debatable

Origin

Early 19th century: from Greek gnōmikos (perhaps via French gnomique), from gnōmē ‘thought, judgement’, (plural) gnōmai ‘sayings, maxims’, related to gignōskein ‘know’.

单词	gnomic
释义	Definition of gnomic in English: gnomic adjective ˈnəʊmɪkˈnoʊmɪk 1Expressed in or of the nature of short, pithy maxims or aphorisms. 格言警句式的；精辟的 that most gnomic form, the aphorism 那种最精辟的形式，格言。 Example sentencesExamples He did not go on to explain his position in any detail, but he did not have to; his neo-colonial patronisation illuminated despite his gnomic brevity. Malraux's own prose could be oracular, gnomic and mannered, but it never, ever, sounded like a series of captions to a photo spread in Paris Match. In an introductory note to the teacher, he says wryly that ‘Much of the commentary has been kept sufficiently gnomic not to impede the teacher who wants to modify or dissent from it,’ and such a note is borne out by what follows. It begins with typical examples of the brief gnomic phrases that were to become a hallmark of Franck's style. The phrases evoke both the portentousness of a movie script and the gnomic meter of haiku. These law professors can be succinct, not to say gnomic, not to say utterly obscure. The meaning of this gnomic utterance still eludes me. We hear iambs, trochees, Virgil's hexameters, the Norse alliterative lines, each arranged in their various couplets, quatrains, choric stanzas, gnomic verses, and much more besides. This area will be reserved for shorter, more gnomic utterances, hopefully enigmatic and curt enough to conceal the arrant imbecility that will have spawned them. Both had a taste for gnomic, abstract verse - a taste that buds forth in these letters. As I approach the end of her post, the following gnomic thought pushes itself towards the front of my brain and refuses to budge: borders only delineate states of mind. But he doesn't ramble or rant; instead, he suggests vast conceptual contradictions in gnomic, comic haikus. Despite this, Marxists have spent more than a century mining his texts in order to piece together otherwise disparate, and often gnomic, comments and asides on capitalism and nature. Such writing inevitably takes the form of short fragmentary and often gnomic utterance. DeLillo's characters have often talked in epigrams or gnomic utterances; now these have a future-shock fatalism about them. Sporting a permanently pained expression and the hunched demeanour of a child expecting a smack, he speaks in gnomic aphorisms that frequently sound like bumper-sticker mottoes. He had a talent for self-advertisement and had built himself up into a picturesque figure given to gnomic utterances about his own significance in the world. The neglect of the public realm was presided over and encouraged by an ossifying Conservative administration, while the Prince of Wales made gnomic pronouncements on the sidelines. A large obelisk north of the village, erected in 1823, offers the gnomic advice that kings should not strain their prerogatives nor subjects rebel. In The Approach, a mostly white painting with edges of yellow-gold, a mystical luminosity is supported by a gnomic title. Synonyms concise, succinct, terse, pithy, aphoristic, compact, condensed, compressed, short, brief 1.1 Difficult to understand because enigmatic or ambiguous. I had to have the gnomic response interpreted for me 我得让人给我解释一下这个莫名其妙的答复。 Example sentencesExamples His compositions were elevated and formal, distinguished by the boldness of their metaphors and a marked reliance on myth and gnomic utterance. Such gnomic utterances are no use to policymakers. By this time I knew her well enough to understand this gnomic, seemingly banal statement. These gnomic texts serve as a kind of decentering device, forcing the viewer to abandon traditional notions of meaning and enter into Dittborn's symbolic world. Any self-respecting philosopher ought to be prepared with some gnomic sayings that can bear several interpretations, at least some of them scandalous. Even his private comments grew much more guarded as the work itself became increasingly gnomic and resistant to interpretation. There are a few gnomic statements, for example ‘stable isotope discrimination is therefore defined as enzyme-mediated fractionation’. What is missing, he argues, is an acknowledgement of the history of delay, prevarication, demands for clarification, gnomic utterances, false trails, garden paths and double-speak by the republican leadership. We are not far from Carl Andre's floor pieces and his gnomic remark ‘A thing is a hole in a thing it is not,’ which points toward an idea of sculpture as a rupture in the continuum of space. The collection ends with a typically gnomic pronouncement from Jean-Luc Godard entitled Dans le Noir du Temps which disinters fragments of his old films as part of what is apparently a fiercely grim ongoing farewell to cinema. His style, too, is often tortuous and gnomic, and it can be almost impossible to see what he actually means, as the endless discussions of his analysis of the causes of the war show. This may seem impossibly gnomic, and it is certainly complicated to decipher, but its main arguments are clear enough. Sentences are thrown out which, because they lack aesthetic context, must seem gnomic to any but the unnaturally well-informed. Leconte deepens and enriches the situation by having Faber consult the real psychoanalyst in the office next door, who gives him gnomic advice and a large bill. The lyrics at times become too obscure and in some places descend into gnomic utterance. Many of her speeches could sound pretentiously gnomic, or ramblingly incoherent. In any case, there is always more entertainment to come, courtesy of Jose's gnomic post-match pronouncements. The precise scope of this responsibility remains as gnomic as in the 1964 version, but the symbolism is obvious. Even more gnomic and less rewarding was those liner notes' unreadable amplification in his ‘novel’ - ah, remember when the term ‘novel’ conferred cachet? Such tangled connections are how all this book's stories mesh: as found texts, remembered movies and gnomic cross-references. Synonyms ambiguous, equivocal, dual, two-edged, ambivalent, open to debate, open to argument, arguable, debatable Derivatives gnomically adverb ‘You'll simply never understand the true nature of sacrifice,’ Rowan's mum says gnomically to Howie. Example sentencesExamples Academics should begin by considering the Occidentalist ideas that have been handed down to them, in gnomically convoluted prose, by the biggest philosopher of the 20th century: Martin Heidegger. ‘True,’ Isaiah would gnomically reply, ‘but at a deeper level.’ ‘The partnership will be, however, be an effective campaigning and administrative team that's a result of one plus one equals two,’ Soong said gnomically. On the centre's website, Hunter states gnomically: ‘If you accept that you should give a hungry man a fishing rod, not a fish, then confidence underpins his ability to use that fishing rod.’ Origin Early 19th century: from Greek gnōmikos (perhaps via French gnomique), from gnōmē 'thought, judgement', (plural) gnōmai 'sayings, maxims', related to gignōskein 'know'. Rhymes monochromic, ohmic, photochromic Definition of gnomic in US English: gnomic adjectiveˈnōmikˈnoʊmɪk 1Expressed in or of the nature of short, pithy maxims or aphorisms. 格言警句式的；精辟的 that most gnomic form, the aphorism 那种最精辟的形式，格言。 Example sentencesExamples A large obelisk north of the village, erected in 1823, offers the gnomic advice that kings should not strain their prerogatives nor subjects rebel. Despite this, Marxists have spent more than a century mining his texts in order to piece together otherwise disparate, and often gnomic, comments and asides on capitalism and nature. The neglect of the public realm was presided over and encouraged by an ossifying Conservative administration, while the Prince of Wales made gnomic pronouncements on the sidelines. The meaning of this gnomic utterance still eludes me. Sporting a permanently pained expression and the hunched demeanour of a child expecting a smack, he speaks in gnomic aphorisms that frequently sound like bumper-sticker mottoes. Such writing inevitably takes the form of short fragmentary and often gnomic utterance. DeLillo's characters have often talked in epigrams or gnomic utterances; now these have a future-shock fatalism about them. In an introductory note to the teacher, he says wryly that ‘Much of the commentary has been kept sufficiently gnomic not to impede the teacher who wants to modify or dissent from it,’ and such a note is borne out by what follows. The phrases evoke both the portentousness of a movie script and the gnomic meter of haiku. In The Approach, a mostly white painting with edges of yellow-gold, a mystical luminosity is supported by a gnomic title. This area will be reserved for shorter, more gnomic utterances, hopefully enigmatic and curt enough to conceal the arrant imbecility that will have spawned them. As I approach the end of her post, the following gnomic thought pushes itself towards the front of my brain and refuses to budge: borders only delineate states of mind. It begins with typical examples of the brief gnomic phrases that were to become a hallmark of Franck's style. Malraux's own prose could be oracular, gnomic and mannered, but it never, ever, sounded like a series of captions to a photo spread in Paris Match. He had a talent for self-advertisement and had built himself up into a picturesque figure given to gnomic utterances about his own significance in the world. He did not go on to explain his position in any detail, but he did not have to; his neo-colonial patronisation illuminated despite his gnomic brevity. Both had a taste for gnomic, abstract verse - a taste that buds forth in these letters. But he doesn't ramble or rant; instead, he suggests vast conceptual contradictions in gnomic, comic haikus. These law professors can be succinct, not to say gnomic, not to say utterly obscure. We hear iambs, trochees, Virgil's hexameters, the Norse alliterative lines, each arranged in their various couplets, quatrains, choric stanzas, gnomic verses, and much more besides. Synonyms concise, succinct, terse, pithy, aphoristic, compact, condensed, compressed, short, brief 1.1 Enigmatic; ambiguous. 令人费解的；含糊不清的 I had to have the gnomic response interpreted for me 我得让人给我解释一下这个莫名其妙的答复。 Example sentencesExamples What is missing, he argues, is an acknowledgement of the history of delay, prevarication, demands for clarification, gnomic utterances, false trails, garden paths and double-speak by the republican leadership. By this time I knew her well enough to understand this gnomic, seemingly banal statement. Such gnomic utterances are no use to policymakers. In any case, there is always more entertainment to come, courtesy of Jose's gnomic post-match pronouncements. Sentences are thrown out which, because they lack aesthetic context, must seem gnomic to any but the unnaturally well-informed. Such tangled connections are how all this book's stories mesh: as found texts, remembered movies and gnomic cross-references. Many of her speeches could sound pretentiously gnomic, or ramblingly incoherent. Even his private comments grew much more guarded as the work itself became increasingly gnomic and resistant to interpretation. The collection ends with a typically gnomic pronouncement from Jean-Luc Godard entitled Dans le Noir du Temps which disinters fragments of his old films as part of what is apparently a fiercely grim ongoing farewell to cinema. These gnomic texts serve as a kind of decentering device, forcing the viewer to abandon traditional notions of meaning and enter into Dittborn's symbolic world. The lyrics at times become too obscure and in some places descend into gnomic utterance. His style, too, is often tortuous and gnomic, and it can be almost impossible to see what he actually means, as the endless discussions of his analysis of the causes of the war show. There are a few gnomic statements, for example ‘stable isotope discrimination is therefore defined as enzyme-mediated fractionation’. This may seem impossibly gnomic, and it is certainly complicated to decipher, but its main arguments are clear enough. Any self-respecting philosopher ought to be prepared with some gnomic sayings that can bear several interpretations, at least some of them scandalous. Even more gnomic and less rewarding was those liner notes' unreadable amplification in his ‘novel’ - ah, remember when the term ‘novel’ conferred cachet? We are not far from Carl Andre's floor pieces and his gnomic remark ‘A thing is a hole in a thing it is not,’ which points toward an idea of sculpture as a rupture in the continuum of space. Leconte deepens and enriches the situation by having Faber consult the real psychoanalyst in the office next door, who gives him gnomic advice and a large bill. The precise scope of this responsibility remains as gnomic as in the 1964 version, but the symbolism is obvious. His compositions were elevated and formal, distinguished by the boldness of their metaphors and a marked reliance on myth and gnomic utterance. Synonyms ambiguous, equivocal, dual, two-edged, ambivalent, open to debate, open to argument, arguable, debatable Origin Early 19th century: from Greek gnōmikos (perhaps via French gnomique), from gnōmē ‘thought, judgement’, (plural) gnōmai ‘sayings, maxims’, related to gignōskein ‘know’.
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