Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Pertaining to or of the nature of metaphor; consisting of or abounding in metaphor; not literal: as, a metaphorical expression; a metaphorical use of words.
Wiktionary
- adj. Pertaining to or characterized by a metaphor; figurative; symbolic.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. expressing one thing in terms normally denoting another
Examples
“Most of these pictures are what I call metaphorical in the sense that they are not real life.”
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“It's not until a violent climax at the Casino that the two halves of the plot come together, and then the connection is more convincing in metaphorical than literal terms.”
“Couching the bailout in metaphorical terms, Miller said there was a "strong possibility of significant profit to taxpayers for taking this journey with us.”
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“Read Roger: An object lesson in metaphorical consonance”
“In alchemy, the distinction between the literal and the metaphorical is fundamental.”
“Apocalypses usually describe historical events in metaphorical terms and also make predictions for the future.”
“While science describes our world through facts and figures, art and literature describes our world in metaphorical ways, by allowing us to see with our hearts what our minds sometimes have trouble fathoming.”
“When McCain announced his suspension, he called a metaphorical time-out on third and debate.”
“25 I had heard that quote previously but had thought it referred to metaphorical connections.”
“What’s worse is that it is explained in metaphorical terms.”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘metaphorical’.
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EN - eloquence in public speaking
Key words from "The Training of a Public Speaker" by Grenville Kleiser (New York and London, 1920)
beget, imago, approbation, orator, peroration, Cicero, eloquence, elocution, rhetoric, premeditate, plead, Isocrates and 264 more...
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GRE
predilection, explicit, appeal, supplication, appealing, enchanting, ovation, pertinent, apropos, opportunely, applicable, germane and 381 more...
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Shadowkeir's list
This list, the one shown below this very message, is a collection of words that you cannot begin to fathom how much I adore. The list will also feature atithesis and contrasting words such as the t...
wishful, anticlimactic, forte, monchromatic, septic, wonderous, isoclinal, deformed, disintergrate, favourite, laughable, awe-inspiring and 250 more...
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Unusual and Random Words
My Favourite Kind
quagmire, soliloquy, aardvark, topaz, ardent, exquisite, pyromania, pyre, extravagant, obscure, quetzal, quibble and 199 more...
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Units Of Language
Word:
-a unit of language consisting of one or more spoken sounds or their written representation, that functions as a principal carrier of meaning.sulk, promenade, skulk, idle, subsequently, moody, paroxysm, felony, anent, generic, hallucinogen, synaesthesia and 215 more...
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Hilary's List
Just a list of words I like
wellspring, mystery, wonderment, intrinsic, artisan, enchantment, magic, transience, incomplete, impermanent, imperfect, resonance and 163 more...
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Literary Vocab
literary terminology
allegorical, analogous, allusion, aphorism, antithetical, archaism, criticaster, dirge, doggerel, epitaph, euphonious, found poem and 34 more...
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English 9
competent, literal, jovial, anecdote, purge, coming of age, plebian, sovereign, ostentatious, disciplines, makeshift, pseudo and 8 more...
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Words I love
circumspect, cumulus, melancholy, apophatic, hermeneutic, parallelism, syncopated, metaphorical, drizzle, devout, linguist, polemic and 33 more...
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