Metaphorical is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for METAPHORICAL in dictionary:

ADJECTIVE:
• related to metaphor, also METAPHORIC
• characteristic of or relating to metaphor; figurative
• Of or pertaining to metaphor; comprising a metaphor; not literal; figurative; tropical; as, a metaphorical expression; a metaphorical sense.
• expressing one thing in terms normally denoting another
• related to metaphor
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them (as in drowning in money); broadly; figurative language — compare simile

Words related to METAPHORICAL

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Words that contain METAPHORICAL

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How to use METAPHORICAL in a sentence

• The Game at Chesse, a metaphorical Discourse shewing the present Estate of this Kingdome.
• Romances, which owe their very Being to this Passion, are full of these metaphorical Deaths.
• In these dialects this word has a richer metaphorical meaning than in our tongue.
• But hence it became a metaphorical expression to mean merely the attainment of majority, and in this sense seems to have been very generally understood and not uncommonly used.
• Let him listen to her, with his metaphorical mouth open in wrapt admiration, and she is his.
• But this personification is merely poetical or metaphorical, not real.
• Most of the songs are love-songs, and they abound in metaphorical expressions.
• That is to say, if any meaning is to be extracted from the terms at all, it is only to be so by using them in some metaphorical sense.
• Fanciful, metaphorical, or far-fetched interpretations are never applied to the words of a will.
• So had Gentle Annie, munching a reflective cud, and Sundown, in a metaphorical sense, doing likewise.
• All descriptions of the creating or sustaining principle in things must be metaphorical, because they must be verbal.
• The commonest actions have naturally given us most metaphorical words, for these were the actions of which the word-makers were most easily reminded.
• There is one group of metaphorical words which is specially interesting for the stories of the past which they tell us if we examine into their meaning.
• And in fact much of our language, and especially metaphorical words and phrases, were once slang.
• Secondly, there are often certain features in the barbaric ritual obviously metaphorical, incapable of literal acceptance.
• We now pass to examine some metaphorical terms often erroneously interpreted as conveying merely their literal force.
• The more they are allowed to eat literal dirt now, the less metaphorical dirt will they eat a few years hence.
• The meaning of all this is metaphorical, like the rest, and may be understood in the same sense as that.
• The metaphorical coloring was also used by him in a manner which, to any thorough student of the Indian philosophy and religion, seems absurd.
• It is a metaphorical representation of the incident he has previously described.
• An old thought of her own came to her, back from the dim region of ante-marriage days, the idea to which the Henstead doctor had given a terse, if metaphorical, expression.
• This fault may arise either from confusing different metaphors in the same sentence, or from blending literal language with metaphorical.
• Others may in a Metaphorical or Philosophick Sense be said to command themselves, but this Emperor is also literally under his own Command.
• It is no less an impropriety to make any Being in Nature or Art to do things in its Metaphorical State, which it could not do in its Original.
• But everything we say is metaphorical if we choose to be captious.
• So, in the twinkling of an eye, Miss Higglesby-Browne, fallen forever from her high estate, was strewn in metaphorical fragments at our feet.
• The vision grew more splendid as it grew more metaphorical.
• Another metaphorical extension is to a model or pattern, because a law presents something as a guide to human conduct.
• The contact of the senses with the objects is not in any sense metaphorical but actual.
• It is only in a metaphorical sense that William can be described as an Anointed of the Lord.
• These and the like phrases, though many of them be metaphorical, yet do all of them clearly evince, that sin must first have a being before it can be pardoned.
• And there is no greater baseness in literature than the habit of using these metaphorical expressions in cool blood.

Similar words containing METAPHORIC without suffix al

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