| ADJECTIVE | all | metaphorical, metaphoric | expressing one thing in terms normally denoting another |
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| Sounds | meh.tahfao'rihkahl | |
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| Rhymes | abdominal ... zoological: 2115 rhymes with ahl... | |
| Meaning | Expressing one thing in terms normally denoting another. | |
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| Example | "a metaphorical expression" | |
| Synonym | metaphoric | |
| 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 |
| Adverbs | metaphorically | in a metaphorical manner |
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