Topic Thesaurus
Roget's Thesaurus

Metaphor

Nouns
  • figure of speech
  • way of speaking, colloquialism. phrase etc. Phrase
  • figure, trope, metaphor, enallage, catachresis
  • metonymy [Gramm.], synecdoche [Sem.]
  • autonomasia, irony, figurativeness etc. adj.
  • image, imagery
  • metalepsis, type, anagoge, simile, personification, prosopopoeia, allegory, apologue, parable, fable
  • allusion, adumbration
  • application. exaggeration, hyperbole etc. Exaggeration. association, association of ideas (analogy) Existence4-supposition">Supposition.1
Verbs
  • employ a metaphor etc. n.
  • personify, allegorize, adumbrate, shadow forth, apply, allude to.
Adjectives
  • metaphorical, figurative, catachrestical, typical, tralatitious, parabolic, allegorical, allusive, anagogical
  • ironical
  • colloquial
  • tropical.
Adverbs
  • so to speak, so to say, so to express oneself
  • as it were.