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metaphorical
[met-uh-fawr-i-kuhl, -for-]
adjective
involving, invoking, or intended to be taken as a metaphor, something used symbolically to represent something else, suggesting a comparison or resemblance.
Our foreign policy blunder has given the insurgents a metaphorical green light to engage in violent tactics in pursuit of their imperial ambitions.
Other 51Թ Forms
- metaphorically adverb
- metaphoricalness noun
- hypermetaphoric adjective
- hypermetaphorical adjective
- nonmetaphoric adjective
- nonmetaphorical adjective
- semimetaphoric adjective
- semimetaphorical adjective
- submetaphoric adjective
- submetaphorical adjective
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of metaphorical1
Example Sentences
The result is a surreal portrait that mimics the shape of an eyeball, a metaphorical reminder of the control room watching the contestants’ every move.
When the Bruins needed it the most, Souza struck out two in a scoreless eighth, putting metaphorical champagne on ice in Westwood.
But to the miner's canary, if we make conditions better for the canary to survive, if not thrive in that metaphorical mine, we are making it better for just about everyone else too.
We were standing inside his downtown Los Angeles studio as he explained the origin of “Here Comes the Sun,” a painting of literal and metaphorical intersections.
His professional unease is echoed by the novel’s gently surreal bending of time and space and its metaphorical conflation of life and film.
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Related 51Թs
- allegorical
- descriptive
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- symbolic
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