"My date spoke only in gnomic phrases and couldn't come up with any new ideas."
"The campaign speech excited the voters but remained gnomic in substance."
"She glued lots of gnomic inspirational sayings on the inside of her journal."
Greek, early 19th century
Despite their similarities, the adjective "gnomic" comes from a different root than the noun for a fairy-tale creature. "Gnome," the word for a dwarfish being in many classic stories, comes from the Greek "genomos," meaning "Earth dweller." ...
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