Definitions for gnomic

gnomic gno·mic

Spelling: [noh-mik, nom-ik]
IPA: /ˈnoʊ mɪk, ˈnɒm ɪk/

Gnomic is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 95 anagrams from letters in gnomic (cgimno).

Definitions for gnomic

adjective

  1. of, relating to, or resembling a gnome.
  2. like or containing gnomes or aphorisms.
  3. of, relating to, or noting a writer of aphorisms, especially any of certain Greek poets.

Origin of gnomic

First recorded in 1805-15; gnome1 + -ic

Examples for gnomic

His method is gnomic, laconic, oracular; never persuasive or plausible.

The gnomic poets show how guilt, if unavenged at the moment, brings calamity upon the offspring of the evil-doer.

They often say in their gnomic aphorisms, ‘Even the Gods cannot alter the past.’

He is a gnomic Poet; and he is so, because he is emphatically the poet of man.

Dyer uses this kind of gnomic, prophetic, baffling language all the time, and it can be trying and vague.

The gnomic poets and the Seven Sages had crystallized morality in apothegms.

The doubt of authorship which hangs over all the gnomic fragments warns us, therefore, to be cautious in ascribing them to Solon.

Viewed in this light, the gnomic poets mark a transition from Homer and Hesiod to the dramatists and moralists of Attica.

In some respects these gnomic poets present even a more gloomy view of human destinies than the epic poets.

He would have looked very well as a priest: the shabby, gnomic variety one sees in small Italian towns.

Word Value for gnomic
Scrable

11

Words with friends

15

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