Definition of Metaphorical

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Definition of Metaphorical
	Metaphorical Of or pertaining to metaphor; comprising a metaphor; not literal; figurative; tropical; as, a metaphorical expression; a metaphorical sense. Related Definitions: As, Comprising, Expression, Figurative, Literal, Metaphor, Metaphorical, Not, Of, Or, Pertaining, Sense, To, Tropical

Metaphorical Quotations

But it then very soon became clear that the response of a war against terrorism, initially conceived of in a metaphorical sense, began to be taken increasingly seriously and came to entail waging a real war.
Ulrich Beck

Language operates between literal and metaphorical signification.
Robert Smithson

Our tools are extensions of our purposes, and so we find it natural to make metaphorical attributions of intentionality to them; but I take it no philosophical ice is cut by such examples.
John Searle

In recent decades this symbolic or metaphorical lyric has given way to one which leans toward metonymy.
Thomas Harrison

Metaphorical Translations

metaphorical in German is metaphorische

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