symphonic

English

Etymology

From symphony +‎ -ic.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɪmˈfɒnɪk/

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• Rhymes: -ɒnɪk

Adjective

symphonic (comparative more symphonic, superlative most symphonic)

1. (music) Characteristic of a symphony.

   symphonic poem

   She enjoyed the rich symphonic sound of the concert.

   The band incorporated symphonic elements into their rock music.

   • 1902 [1898], [George] Bernard Shaw, The Perfect Wagnerite […] ‎^[1], second edition, London: Grant Richards, page 123:

     Finally, Mozart's most dramatic finales and concerted numbers are more or less in sonata form, like symphonic movements, and must therefore be classed as musical prose.

Derived terms

• symphonic orchestra
• symphonic poem
• symphonic pop

Translations

characteristic of a symphony

• Belarusian: сімфанічны (simfaničny)
• Bulgarian: симфоничен (simfoničen)
• Catalan: simfònic
• Czech: symfonický
• Danish: symfonisk
• Dutch: symfonisch (nl)
• Esperanto: simfonia
• Estonian: sümfooniline
• Finnish: sinfoninen
• French: symphonique (fr)
• Galician: sinfónico (gl)
• German: sinfonisch (de)
• Greek: συμφωνικός (el) (symfonikós)
• Hungarian: szimfonikus (hu)
• Irish: siansach
• Italian: sinfonico (it)
• Latvian: simfonisks
• Lithuanian: simfoninis
• Mari:

  Eastern Mari: симфонический (simfońičeskij)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: symfonisk

  Nynorsk: symfonisk

• Polish: symfoniczny (pl)
• Portuguese: sinfônico (pt) (Brazil), sinfónico (pt) (Portugal)
• Romanian: simfonic (ro)
• Russian: симфони́ческий (ru) (simfoníčeskij)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: симфонијски

  Latin: simfonijski (sh)

• Slovak: symfonický
• Slovene: simfonični
• Spanish: sinfónico (es)
• Swedish: symfonisk (sv)
• Turkish: senfonik (tr)
• Ukrainian: симфоні́чний (symfoníčnyj)
• Welsh: symffonig

Anagrams

• cyphonism