semaphoric
adjEtymology From semaphore + -ic.
1
using semaphore
2
involving waving the arms, as if using semaphore
- He was standing as he spoke, emphasising his periods with semaphoric motions of his right arm.1913, Horace Annesley Vachell, Bunch Grass:
- This is a cerebral take on the way hundreds of other movies have defined hysteria rather than any form of observation, a semaphoric set of signals designed to represent hysteria rather than embody it.2002 November 8, Jonathan Rosenbaum, “Master Thief”, in Chicago Reader:
- Derived terms
- semaphorically