symphoric adjective2 •Relating to or involving symphoria (any sense).Senn’s paper on “Symphoric Joyce” queried where the pun begins and ends and noted the “symphoric” quality of Joyce’s writing—bringing various nodes of signification together in the text. — 1998 •(no longer used, rare) Clumsy; accident-prone.Who would have endured in this place to have seen two such words as the phthano-paranomic or crime-preventing, and the phthano-symphoric or calamity-preventing, branches of the police? — 1789 formsmore symphoric · most symphoric