Usually means: Artists expressing ideas through symbols.
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  1. symbolist: Merriam-Webster
  2. symbolist: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. symbolist: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. symbolist: Collins English Dictionary
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  6. Symbolist, symbolist: Wordnik
  7. symbolist: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. symbolist: Wiktionary
  9. symbolist: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. symbolist: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. symbolist: Infoplease Dictionary
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  13. Symbolist: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Symbolist: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. symbolist: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
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  17. Symbolist: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. symbolist: FreeDictionary.org
  19. symbolist: Mnemonic Dictionary
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Definitions from Wiktionary (symbolist)

▸ adjective:  (art, literature) Of or pertaining to the Symbolist movement in late 19th-century and early 20th-century European arts and literature
▸ noun:  One who employs symbols.

Similar:
sociosymbolic, Barthesian, tropological, literaturological, sociophilosophical, Silversteinian, Schelerian, de Staëlian, Simondonian, tropologic, more...

Opposite:
realist, literalist, pragmatist

Types:
Gauguin, Moreau, Redon, vGogh, Munch, more...

Phrases:
symbolist movement, Symbolist painting, more...

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french, russian, great, post, modern, first, true, much, early, belgian, romantic

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Similar:
sociosymbolic, Barthesian, tropological, literaturological, sociophilosophical, Silversteinian, Schelerian, de Staëlian, Simondonian, tropologic, more...

Opposite:
realist, literalist, pragmatist

Types:
Gauguin, Moreau, Redon, vGogh, Munch, more...

Phrases:
symbolist movement, Symbolist painting, more...

Adjectives:
french, russian, great, post, modern, first, true, much, early, belgian, romantic

Colors:
    purple,     violet,     indigo,     lavender,     mauve, more...



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