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Meaning of METAPHORICAL

Pronunciation:  `metu'forikul

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 Definition: [adj]  expressing one thing in terms normally denoting another; "a metaphorical expression"; "metaphoric language"
 
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 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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