metaphoric

Definitions  ·  Examples  ·  Pronunciations  ·  Etymologies  ·  Related  ·  Statistics  ·  Comments  · 
The near nakedness is metaphoric, as if much of the rest of the film.

View all »
Examples (50)

  • Ancient Hebrew was what I would call a picto-metaphoric language. —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
  • In English, the meaning of the word eavesdropping corresponds, in its current use, to the metaphoric-pragmatic use of the term "grampo" (wiretap) in Portuguese ... —  Home
  • I think you mean metaphoric or probably figurative. —  Neowin.net / All
  • Ladies and gentlemen, this is not only the timeless parable of the Good Samaritan, it is the metaphoric rock upon which ALSAC was built-50 years ago-when our beloved Danny Thomas himself penned a timeless and eloquent document.
  • Madagascar, which was of course a metaphoric heads-up for, you know, us human animals. —  FlickFilosopher.com
 

Tags

Sign up or sign in to add tags.

Stats

This word has been looked up 38 times.

On Twitter

Photos from

flickr images

Etymologies (1)

Toggle Century etymologies Century Dictionary (1)

  1. = French métaplio-rique = Spanish metafórico = Portuguese metaphorico = Italian metaforico, from Late Latin *metaphoricus (in adverb metaphoricc), from Greek μεταφορικός, relating to metaphor, from μεταφορά, metaphor: see metaphor.
 

Pronunciations
Record your own »

If you'd like to prod us on getting a pronunciation for this word, sign in (or sign up) and let us know.

Charts

frequency chart

Bubble size: how much this word was used in a year

Bubble height: used more or less than expected, vs. all uses evenly distributed

You can expect to see this word a few times a year.

Recently looked up

espada · luogo · opportune · gleed · egg-white

Recent Favorites

pygopagus · sanglant · Astacus · sweetbread · qualms

Recent Pronunciations

britney · bunda · settii · aithníonn ciaróg ciaróg eile · an sionnach i gcraiceann na caorach