analogical
Speech parts
1. analogical - Adjective
2. analogical - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
Founded on, or of the nature of, analogy; expressing or implying analogy.
Having analogy; analogous.
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Any restrictions to freedom of expression will always open the door to possible others, because analogical reasoning can mount arguments showing why this or that class of objects is closely similar to those for which exceptions have been made.
Now multitudes of root words are identical in the American languages over vast areas some of them with precisely the same senses, and others with various shades of analogical meaning.
the analogical use of a metaphor
Case markers then become generalized through analogical reasoning and reuse.
"At full maturity the tetrad reveals the metaphoric structure of the artifact as having two figures and two grounds in dynamic and analogical relationship to each other."
The approaches treat these as whole words that are related to each other by analogical rules.