Antonyms for metaphor

Grammar : Noun

Spell : met-uh-fawr, -fer

Phonetic Transcription : ˈmɛt əˌfɔr, -fər

plain speech

Definition of metaphor

Origin : late 15c., from Middle French metaphore (Old French metafore, 13c.), and directly from Latin metaphora, from Greek metaphora "a transfer," especially of the sense of one word to a different word, literally "a carrying over," from metapherein "transfer, carry over; change, alter; to use a word in a strange sense," from meta- "over, across" (see meta-) + pherein "to carry, bear" (see infer).

noun figure of speech, implied comparison

Example sentences :

The metaphor might be meaningless; but it struck him it was strong.
Extract from : « Punchinello, Vol. 1, No. 2, April 9, 1870 » by Various

Now, it is this sense of the solidity of things that can only be uttered by the metaphor of eating.
Extract from : « Alarms and Discursions » by G. K. Chesterton

But the metaphor is more striking as phrase-making than as criticism.
Extract from : « Shelley, Godwin and Their Circle » by H. N. Brailsford

Instinctively, metaphor sprang to the lips of Ichabod Maurice.
Extract from : « A Breath of Prairie and other stories » by Will Lillibridge

Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind.
Extract from : « Nature » by Ralph Waldo Emerson

In spite of herself, Beatrix laughed at the logical application of her metaphor.
Extract from : « The Dominant Strain » by Anna Chapin Ray

She found the cat, in the way of metaphor, a mysteriously useful animal.
Extract from : « The Prisoner » by Alice Brown

He might, under the circumstances, have been expected to use some other metaphor.
Extract from : « The Red Hand of Ulster » by George A. Birmingham

This metaphor, from the swelling and heaving of a wave, is imitated by Arrian, Anab.
Extract from : « The First Four Books of Xenophon's Anabasis » by Xenophon

Bishop looked a little grave when Kenyon dropped into metaphor.
Extract from : « Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 104, March 4, 1893 » by Various

Synonyms for metaphor

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