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Metaphorical

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Definition

Metaphorical means using a word or phrase that describes something by comparing it to something else, without using the words like or as.

Synonyms & similar words

metaphoric figurative symbolic representative allegorical allusive imagistic poetic ornate fanciful fantastical florid flowery ornamental rhetorical tropological typical analogical parabolic simile

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