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metaphorical
[ met-uh-fawr-i-kuhl, -for- ]
adjective
- involving, invoking, or intended to be taken as a metaphor, something used symbolically to represent something else, suggesting a comparison or resemblance:
Our foreign policy blunder has given the insurgents a metaphorical green light to engage in violent tactics in pursuit of their imperial ambitions.
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Origin of metaphorical1
Example Sentences
That gap has grown to 16 since then and there remains the metaphorical length of the River Clyde between the two teams right now.
The comedy scenes have an energy that’s missing in the more serious sequences, say the clumsily metaphorical shots of George fishing.
They skillfully navigate between their relationship and their jobs — if there’s anything the other can’t know, it goes in a metaphorical “black bag.”
But then one morning in mid-September, a memo from the very top tipped him over the metaphorical edge.
Not that Hudson herself isn’t juggling a number of metaphorical basketballs at all times.
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