Definition of Ideographic

1. Adjective. Of or relating to or consisting of ideograms.

Partainyms: Ideograph

Definition of Ideographic

1. a. Of or pertaining to an ideogram; representing ideas by symbols, independently of sounds; as, 9 represents not the word "nine," but the idea of the number itself.

Definition of Ideographic

1. Adjective. Pertaining to an ideograph or ideography. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Ideographic

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Ideographic

1. Of or pertaining to an ideogram; representing ideas by symbols, independently of sounds; as, 9 represents not the word "nine," but the idea of the number itself. Origin: Cf. F. Ideographique. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ideographic

identity verification
identityless
identitylessness
idents
ideo-
ideogenical
ideogeny
ideogram
ideogramic
ideogrammatic
ideogrammatically
ideogramme
ideogrammic
ideograms
ideograph
ideographic
ideographic comma
ideographic space
ideographical
ideographically
ideographics
ideographies
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ideography
ideokinetic
ideokinetic apraxia
ideolog
ideologic
ideological
ideological barrier

Literary usage of Ideographic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Beginnings of Libraries by Ernest Cushing Richardson (1914)
"Ideographic records Ideograms are the mnemonic stage of image writing. They may be recognizable pictures but, if so, their meanings have no relation to the ..."

2. Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archaeology by Society of Biblical Archaeology (1885)
"The true phonetic value of the sign Q-/\ , ideographic of Strife and War, aud its homophones. I have not yet met with any criticism upon the remarks which I ..."

3. A History of the Art of Writing by William Albert Mason (1920)
"CHAPTER VI CHINESE Ideographic WRITING IT is to the Flowery Kingdom, the land of quaint customs and queer ways, in which the past lives in the present, ..."

4. The Encyclopedia Americanaedited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines edited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines (1903)
"The transition from the ideographic to the phonetic use was a long step toward perfection as it immensely simplified the problem of writing by reducing to a ..."

5. Japan at First Hand: Her Islands, Their People, the Picturesque, the Real by Joseph Ignatius Constantine Clarke (1918)
"... newspaper man—The editors and reporters at work —The composing room—A compositor must know and find 10000 ideographic characters—A lively scene. ..."

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