Crossword clues for metaphoric
metaphoric
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Metaphoric \Met`a*phor"ic\, Metaphorical \Met`a*phor"ic*al\, a. Of or pertaining to metaphor; comprising a metaphor; not literal; figurative; tropical; as, a metaphorical expression; a metaphorical sense. -- Met`a*phor"ic*al*ly, adv. -- Met`a*phor"ic*al*ness, n.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. Like a metaphor. alt. Like a metaphor.
WordNet
adj. expressing one thing in terms normally denoting another; "a metaphorical expression"; "metaphoric language" [syn: metaphorical]
Usage examples of "metaphoric".
One way that this archetypal association manifests itself in dreams is that there is a tendency for the quality of light in dreams to be metaphoric of the quality of waking consciousness that has already been brought to the main theme of the dream.
It adopts the standard Aristophanic pattern in which an unofficial hero, a marginal member of society, undertakes an illegitimate and metaphoric plot by virtue of which he will not only triumph personally but perversely correct the central social problem that regular, non-comedic society has been unable to solve.
Back in Athena, whatever elaborate metaphoric action they'd used to instruct the communications software to halt them, append suitable explanatory headers and checksums, then turn the whole package bit-by-bit into a stream of modulated gamma rays, it could never have fully prepared them for the fact that in a subjective instant they'd be stepping ninety-seven years into the future, and ninety-seven light years from home.