simile

Noun

Meaning

A word or phrase by which anything is likened, in one or more of its aspects, to something else; a similitude; a poetical or imaginative comparison.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

parallel comparison correspondence analogy likeness figure of speech community image contrast expression relation compare similarity imagery correlation
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Antonyms

original fact difference contrast opposition reality
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Hypernyms

image figure trope figure of speech

Phrases with the word

Homeric simile

Derivatives

similes

Anagrams

mislie smilie

Examples

He had gone beyond the world of metaphor and simile into the place of things that are, and it was changing him. Neil Gaiman

To borrow a simile from the football field, we believe that men must play fair, but that there must be no shirking, and that the success can only come to the player who hits the line hard. Theodore Roosevelt

A simile committing suicide is always a depressing spectacle. Oscar Wilde

On the heights it is warmer than people in the valley suppose, especially in winter. The thinker recognizes the full import of this simile. Friedrich Nietzsche

A metaphor is like a simile. Steven Wright

The simile has to match the tone of its surroundings and has to be like a little joke. Writing a simile that isn't funny on some level is quite hard. Ned Beauman

Close letter words and terms

similary similative similative case similect Similien similise