metaphorically

Adverb

Meaning

in a metaphorical manner

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

image comparatively approximately eventually badly hardly analogy graphically improperly metaphorical carelessly figuratively faultily tropically floridly
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Antonyms

literally godly almost actually completely directly
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Phrases with the word

speaking metaphorically

Examples

Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble. Joseph Campbell

The phrase ‘marriage market' is used metaphorically and signifies that the mating of human populations is highly systematic and structured. Gary Becker

LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites. Henry Fielding

Watch the movie closely, and you'll see how personal it is. Here's a film in which cinema brings down the Nazi regime, metaphorically and literally. What could possibly be better than that? In this story, cinema changes the world, and I fucking love that idea! Quentin Tarantino

I wanted to explore cancer not just biologically, but metaphorically. The idea that tuberculosis in the 19th century possessed the same kind of frightening and decaying quality was very interesting to me, and it seemed that one could explore the idea that every age defined its own illness. Siddhartha Mukherjee

Most of my songs are about ladies. This one's about ladies metaphorically. There are some of my songs that are about the power of lightening. Ryan Adams

Close letter words and terms

metaphoric metaphorical metaphorical invisible career barrier metaphoricalness metaphorician metaphoricity