metaphorical

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌmɛtəˈfɒɹɪkəl/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌmɛtəˈfɔːɹɪkəl/

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• Hyphenation: meta‧phor‧ical

Adjective

metaphorical (comparative more metaphorical, superlative most metaphorical)

1. Pertaining to or characterized by a metaphor; figurative; symbolic.

Synonyms

• metaphoric

Derived terms

• metaphorically

Translations

pertaining to a metaphor

• Arabic: اِسْتِعَارِيّ‎ (istiʕāriyy), مَجَازِيّ‎ (majāziyy), رَمْزِيّ‎ (ramziyy)
• Azerbaijani: məcazi (az)
• Bulgarian: метафоричен (bg) (metaforičen)
• Catalan: metafòric
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 比喻 (zh) (bǐyù), 象徵／象征 (zh) (xiàngzhēng)

• Danish: metaforisk
• Dutch: metaforisch (nl)
• Finnish: vertauskuvallinen (fi), metaforinen (fi)
• Galician: metafórico
• German: metaphorisch (de)
• Hungarian: metaforikus
• Italian: metaforico (it)
• Japanese: 比喩的な (ja) (ひゆてきな, hiyuteki-na)
• Latvian: metaforisks
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: metaforisk (no)

  Nynorsk: metaforisk

• Occitan: metaforic (oc)
• Polish: metaforyczny (pl)
• Portuguese: metafórico (pt)
• Russian: метафори́ческий (ru) (metaforíčeskij), перено́сный (ru) (perenósnyj), о́бразный (ru) (óbraznyj), фигура́льный (ru) (figurálʹnyj)
• Spanish: metafórico (es)
• Swedish: metaforisk (sv), bildlig (sv)
• Ukrainian: метафори́чний (metaforýčnyj)

See also

figurative

Anagrams

• pharmacolite