ideographic

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: id=e=o=graph=ic

CIDE DICTIONARY

ideographic, a. [Cf. F. idéographique.].

 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.  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

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