ideographic

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ideographic - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Ideographic \I`de*o*graph"ic\, Ideographical
  \I`de*o*graph"ic*al\, a. [Cf. F. id['e]ographique.]
     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. --
     I`de*o*graph"ic*al*ly, adv.
     [1913 Webster]

ideographic - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  ideographic
      adj 1: of or relating to or consisting of ideograms

ideographic - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  79 Moby Thesaurus words for "ideographic":
     abecedarian, allographic, alphabetic, apish, capital, connotative,
     delineatory, demonstrative, denominative, denotative, depictive,
     designative, diagnostic, echoic, emblematic, embodying, evidential,
     exhibitive, expressive, figural, figurative, graphemic, graphic,
     identifying, idiosyncratic, illustrational, illustrative,
     imitative, implicative, incarnating, indicating, indicative,
     indicatory, individual, lettered, lexigraphic, limning, literal,
     logogrammatic, logographic, lower-case, majuscule, meaningful,
     metaphorical, mimetic, mimish, minuscular, minuscule, naming,
     onomatopoeic, pathognomonic, peculiar, personifying, pictographic,
     pictorial, portraying, representational, representative,
     representing, semantic, semiotic, signalizing, significant,
     significative, signifying, simulative, suggestive, symbolic,
     symbolistic, symbolizing, symbological, symptomatic,
     symptomatologic, transliterated, typical, typifying, uncial,
     upper-case, vivid