Antonyms for metaphoric
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : met-uh-fawr, -fer |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈmɛt əˌfɔr, -fər |
Definition of metaphoric
Origin :- 1590s, from metaphor + -ic. Greek metaphorikos meant "apt at metaphors."
- As in metaphorical : adj figurative
- As in figurative : adj not literal, but symbolic
- As in illustrative : adj explanatory
- Susie Bateman snorted like the metaphoric warhorse, for she scented battle.
- Extract from : « John Ames, Native Commissioner » by Bertram Mitford
- With all the wealth of his prolix, poetic, metaphoric tongue, the Polish author gives them abundant consideration.
- Extract from : « The North American Slime-Moulds » by Thomas H. (Thomas Huston) MacBride
- The metaphoric 'infancy' of which Guarini speaks is the pre-dramatic period of pastoral growth.
- Extract from : « Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama » by Walter W. Greg
- The rocks are metaphoric quartzites, and the river-bed is crossed by a belt of granite.
- Extract from : « Golden Alaska » by Ernest Ingersoll
- After thousands of years the lines of metaphoric advance are still shown, and in many cases actually retained in the meaning.
- Extract from : « Instigations » by Ezra Pound
- Ewald takes these for metaphoric designations of the Hellenising Jews.
- Extract from : « The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Daniel » by F. W. Farrar
- Another secondary meaning is "to re-vive or to re-kindle" in its metaphoric sense.
- Extract from : « Notes & Queries, No. 18. Saturday, March 2, 1850 » by Various
- In truth, the charms of this magnificent maiden were worthy of metaphoric phrase.
- Extract from : « The Wild Huntress » by Mayne Reid
- This and other apocryphal stories illustrate the evolution of Haggadoth out of metaphoric allusions.
- Extract from : « The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Daniel » by F. W. Farrar
- I should say to the ordinary bookbuyer, in metaphoric language, Avoid the kickshaws and stick to the solids!
- Extract from : « By-ways in Book-land » by William Davenport Adams
Synonyms for metaphoric
- allegorical
- clarifying
- comparative
- corroborative
- delineative
- denotative
- descriptive
- diagrammatic
- emblematic
- emblematical
- exemplifying
- explicatory
- expository
- fanciful
- figurative
- florid
- flowery
- graphic
- iconographic
- illuminative
- illustrational
- illustrative
- illustratory
- imagistic
- indicative
- interpretive
- metaphoric
- metaphorical
- ornate
- pictorial
- pictoric
- poetical
- representative
- revealing
- sample
- signifying
- specifying
- symbolic
- tropological
- typical
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