semaphoric

comparative more semaphoric · superlative most semaphoric

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

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   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