
Meaning of METAPHORICAL
| Pronunciation: | | `metu'forikul
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[adj] expressing one thing in terms normally denoting another; "a metaphorical expression"; "metaphoric language" |
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METAPHORICAL is a 12 letter word that starts with M. |
| | Synonyms: | | figurative, metaphoric, nonliteral |
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| | Related Terms: | | allegoric, allegorical, allusive, anagogic, associational, connotational, connotative, definable, demonstrative, denominative, denotational, denotative, designative, diagnostic, emblematic, evidential, exhibitive, expressive, extended, extensional, figural, figurative, figured, flowery, full of meaning, full of point, full of substance, identifying, ideographic, idiosyncratic, implicative, indicating, indicative, indicatory, individual, intelligible, intensional, interpretable, mannered, meaning, meaningful, meaty, naming, ornamented, pathognomonic, peculiar, pithy, pointed, pregnant, readable, referential, representative, semantic, semiotic, sententious, signalizing, significant, significative, signifying, substantial, suggestive, symbolic, symbolistic, symbological, symptomatic, symptomatologic, transferred, trolatitious, tropological, typical |
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