Synonym: metaphoric. Similar words: metaphorically, metaphor, metaphysical, anaphoric, metaphase, metaphysics, aphorism, aphoristic. Meaning: [‚metə'fɑrɪkl ,-'fɔ- /‚metə'fɒrɪkl] 
adj. expressing one thing in terms normally denoting another.
adj. expressing one thing in terms normally denoting another. 
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1, It turns out Levy is talking in metaphorical terms.
2, The word has a metaphorical as well as a literal meaning.
3, Her second novel is written in a very metaphorical style.
4, Apples grown in the integrated orchard occupied the metaphorical middle ground.
5, In a metaphorical sense, different functions of the brain take place in different rooms.
6, Metaphorical bloodstains drench these precious stones, however, which makes a visit to the exhibition both eerie and wearisome.
7, Verbal echoes and ambiguities may trigger off metaphorical associations that are not necessarily conceptually justified.
8, At one level this statement is clearly metaphorical and rhetorical.
9, This is because metaphorical mappings, and hence readings, are ultimately constrained by what appear to be universal cognitive structures.
10, The development of this metaphorical structure, however, is gradual, and parallels a stylistic feature of the poetry.
11, The literal and metaphorical juxtaposition of drama and game is what I want to explore here.
12, Metaphorical and metonymic sense extensions have their respective features.
13, Human thought is thus a metaphorical process.
14, Yang's photos and paintings are highly metaphorical.
15, During the time of torture, such artists as Vera Sienra worked in the language of metaphorical mutilation.
16, It is suggested that certain structures, which may appear metaphorical, are best treated as cases of underlexicalisation.
17, In other words, we are dealing here with a tightly-woven mesh of metaphorical oppositions.
18, At the opposite extreme, paupers' graves had long been unmarked; but in between, death had been the metaphorical leveller.
19, The existential sentence strongly suggests that there is nothing metaphorical about this experience for Lok.
20, From its beginnings, writing about California has been a deeply metaphorical enterprise, a continuing and contested act of the imagination.
21, Brecht in particular dealt with the relationship between real struggle and the metaphorical or symbolical illumination of struggle in art.
22, I wondered if Venturi were just careless or if he is making some metaphorical point.
23, The creative imagination reconciles inner and outer worlds in metaphorical synthesis.
24, The true extent of the phenomenon is not at present clear,[http://sentencedict.com/metaphorical.html] but not all sense-spectra are of the metaphorical sort.
25, He would start his own listings magazine, Event, without a picket line - metaphorical or real.
26, It is this component, comprising its symbolic aspects of rhetorical and metaphorical devices, which we refer to as its circumference.
27, In single paragraphs of groups of sentences, Thoreau establishes metaphorical relationships between self and not self.
28, With pairs of antonyms, if one member undergoes a metaphorical extension, the other tends to change in a parallel fashion.
29, The struggle for existence is a term best used in a large and metaphorical sense.
30, One could not hope to find a better medium for escape than a pair of metaphorical, spiritual wings.
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