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HIEROGLYPHICAL
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Dictionary entry overview: What does hieroglyphical mean?
• HIEROGLYPHICAL (adjective)
The adjective HIEROGLYPHICAL has 2 senses:
1. resembling hieroglyphic writing
2. written in or belonging to a writing system using pictorial symbols
Familiarity information: HIEROGLYPHICAL used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Resembling hieroglyphic writing
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Synonyms:
hieroglyphic; hieroglyphical
Pertainym:
hieroglyph (writing that resembles hieroglyphics (usually by being illegible))
Derivation:
hieroglyph (writing that resembles hieroglyphics (usually by being illegible))
Sense 2
Meaning:
Written in or belonging to a writing system using pictorial symbols
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Synonyms:
hieroglyphic; hieroglyphical
Pertainym:
hieroglyph (a writing system using picture symbols; used in ancient Egypt)
Derivation:
hieroglyph (a writing system using picture symbols; used in ancient Egypt)
Context examples
He remembered all about the incident of the boxes, and from a wonderful dog's-eared notebook, which he produced from some mysterious receptacle about the seat of his trousers, and which had hieroglyphical entries in thick, half-obliterated pencil, he gave me the destinations of the boxes.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
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