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semiotic - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

English

Adjective

semiotic (not comparable)

  • Of or relating to semiotics or to semantics.
    • ✤ Applying a meme beyond its semiotic used-by date is undesirable, lowering status.1
    • ✤ Especially when applying [the Lemon test] as a bar examiner might expect would have yielded glaringly ahistorical or politically inconvenient results, [the Supreme Court] regularly found reasons – longstanding historical practice, for example, or semiotic speculations about the social meanings of government actions to hypothetical “reasonable observers” – not to.2
  • (medicine, dated) symptomalogical (of or relating to the signs or symptoms of diseases)

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek σημειωτικός (sēmeiōtikós, “observant of signs”), ultimately derived from σῆμα (sêma, “mark, sign”). Compare semiotics.

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˌsɛmiːˈɒtɪk/
  • Audio (Southern England): 🔊
  • Rhymes: -ɒtɪk

Printed 2026-06-28.

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Footnotes

  1. 2012, Michele Zappavigna, Discourse of Twitter and Social Media ‎: ↩

  2. 2025 August 20, Richard Garnett, “The Ten Commandments and a “secular purpose” ”, in SCOTUSblog: ↩

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