HIEROGLYPHICAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hieroglyphical mean? 

• HIEROGLYPHICAL (adjective)
  The adjective HIEROGLYPHICAL has 2 senses:

1. resembling hieroglyphic writing

2. written in or belonging to a writing system using pictorial symbols

  Familiarity information: HIEROGLYPHICAL used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HIEROGLYPHICAL (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Resembling hieroglyphic writing

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Synonyms:

hieroglyphic; hieroglyphical

Pertainym:

hieroglyph (writing that resembles hieroglyphics (usually by being illegible))

Derivation:

hieroglyph (writing that resembles hieroglyphics (usually by being illegible))

Sense 2

Meaning:

Written in or belonging to a writing system using pictorial symbols

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Synonyms:

hieroglyphic; hieroglyphical

Pertainym:

hieroglyph (a writing system using picture symbols; used in ancient Egypt)

Derivation:

hieroglyph (a writing system using picture symbols; used in ancient Egypt)

 Context examples 

He remembered all about the incident of the boxes, and from a wonderful dog's-eared notebook, which he produced from some mysterious receptacle about the seat of his trousers, and which had hieroglyphical entries in thick, half-obliterated pencil, he gave me the destinations of the boxes.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)