hieroglyphical
- adjective
- /ˌhaɪəroʊˈɡlɪfɪkəl/
- Specialized
:
jeroglífico
- The ancient manuscript contained hieroglyphical inscriptions that baffled researchers for centuries.
Examples
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His robe is painted in a hieroglyphical representation of combat.
Fiction book (1992) -
The artist created a stunning mural with hieroglyphical symbols that tell stories from ancient Egypt.
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In the museum, we learned that hieroglyphical writing was used to record important historical events.
Synonyms
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Like the picture symbols used in ancient Egyptian writing
Relating to carved symbols used in art or writing
Writing that uses signs to show ideas, like Chinese characters
Writing that uses single characters to stand for whole words or ideas
Using written characters that stand for whole words or ideas rather than sounds
Antonyms
How Pictorial
Surface Forms
Morphology
hieroglyphical = hieroglyphic (transparent) = hieroglyph + ical
The adjective is directly built from 'hieroglyph' with a standard adjectival formation and the meaning is predictable from the base.
Etymology
Hieroglyphical comes from Greek parts hieros 'sacred' and glyphein 'to carve', and it is the same root as hieroglyph, meaning a 'sacred carving' or picture sign. So something hieroglyphical looks like those carved picture symbols and is often hard to read.