symbolic

Preposition: of

• something: Doubtlessly this is massively symbolic of something, but it's not quite clear what.
• power: This time the Swastika is embodied within a gold wreath, again symbolic of power and the glory of the Nazi party.
• world: The land of Egypt, in scripture, is often symbolic of the world, a world which is no friend of Grace.
• peace: White flowers, symbolic of peace, were laid in commemorative solidarity.

Preposition: in

• nature: But icons as understood in the Orthodox Church since that date are partly symbolic in nature.

Modifies a noun

• gesture: Symbolic gestures, important in their time, no longer build trust.
• interactionism: Symbolic Interactionism is concerned with social situations and the way people make sense of those situations.
• significance: Blades of grass dyed with manganese were woven into the baskets in geometric patterns with a symbolic significance.
• computation: My tendency to get lost when trying to follow a mass of symbolic computations has long haunted me.
• representation: Symbolic representations do not take kindly to Meta Model questions.
• meaning: Morris rejects any symbolic meaning to the number of fish caught, believing there is no actual evidence to support the view.

Modifying Another Word

• purely: He was terrific if purely symbolic best country album.
• hugely: This hugely symbolic event was arguably a ritual act of public desecration which transgressed the most sacred site of communist public space.
• merely: If it is only a symbol then it doesn't literally purify but is merely symbolic of purification.
• largely: In practice, the legislation turned out to be largely symbolic.
• deeply: In a deeply symbolic action he chose twelve disciples one for each of the ancient tribes.

Used with adjective complement

• seem: As it was the International Year of the Mountains, to visit the greatest of them all seemed highly symbolic.
• become: A customary Champions of Europe, becoming increasingly symbolic all the time, led onto a better performance in the second half.
• consider: As philosophers and physiologists have established, even physical reality can be considered as symbolic.