metaphoric (HyperDic hyper-dictionary)

English > 1 sense of the word *metaphoric*:
ADJECTIVE	all	metaphoric, metaphorical	expressing one thing in terms normally denoting another

English > *metaphoric*: 1 sense > adjective 1
Meaning	Expressing one thing in terms normally denoting another.
Examples	"a metaphorical expression" "metaphoric language"
Synonym	metaphorical
Broader	figurative, nonliteral	(used of the meanings of words or text) not literal
Spanish	metafórico
Catalan	metafòric
Nouns	metaphor	a figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity

HyperDic: metaphoric