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View synonyms for hieroglyphics
hieroglyphics
/ ˌhaɪərəˈɡlɪfɪks /
noun
- a form of writing, esp as used in ancient Egypt, in which pictures or symbols are used to represent objects, concepts, or sounds
- difficult or undecipherable writing
hieroglyphics
- A system of writing with pictures that represent words or sounds. The ancient Egyptians wrote with hieroglyphics. ( See Rosetta stone .)
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Notes
Present-day writing that is hard to decipher or understand is sometimes jokingly called “hieroglyphics.”
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Example Sentences
The threatening walls of this tumbledown abode seemed to have been decorated with hieroglyphics.
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Hieroglyphics of thought were there, too mysterious for the common eye to interpret.
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We do not propose that he shall decipher the hieroglyphics of algebra and geometry.
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The Japanese cannot pocket it any more than he can thrill to short Saxon words or we can thrill to Chinese hieroglyphics.
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Some of them, Mr. Davies thinks, were impressed with rude hieroglyphics, symbolical of Ceridiven.
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