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metaphoric

Synonyms

Adjective

1. metaphorical

2. figurative, nonliteral

Usage
Waterways, Real and Metaphoric Ride - Portland.gov
Using Four-Legged Friends as Metaphors in Therapy - Psychotherapy.net
Framing the mind: media, metaphors, and mindfulness - Frontiers
Metaphor as a springboard to scientific communication: a large-scale study of the use of lexical metaphors across disciplines - Nature
Metaphor in UX Design - Jakob Nielsen on UX
10 mental health metaphors (and what they tell us about how we’re feeling) - Happiful Magazine
The Body Made Metaphoric: Heather Christle on Losing a Rib and Writing a Memoir - Literary Hub
“I am like a camel struggling in the desert”: understanding Chinese foreign language teachers’ perceived identities through metaphors - Frontiers
The Visual Transformation of A Metaphoric Existentiality - dailyasianage.com
“They are battling a different war”: A corpus-based comparative study on - Nature
Revisiting Chandigarh: A Vitalised Metaphoric Urban Forest - ArchitectureLive!
Metaphors in art therapy - La Trobe University
The ability to interpret metaphors is fully developed by the age of 6 - campusa-magazine - EHU
Do You Torture Your Metaphors? The Problem of Self-Conscious Writing - Jane Friedman
Figurative Archive: an open dataset and web-based application for the study of metaphor | Scientific Data - Nature
Verbal creativity in autism: comprehension and generation of metaphoric language in high-functioning autism spectrum disorder and typical development - Frontiers
Is explaining more like showing or more like building?—Agency in metaphors of explaining - Frontiers
Framing medical encounters through metaphor: a cognitive and cultural account of Chinese doctor–patient discourse - Nature
Time-Course of Motor Involvement in Literal and Metaphoric Action Sentence Processing: A TMS Study - Frontiers
Landslide metaphor: a cross-linguistic examination - Nature
Gardening metaphors - Austin Kleon
When to use a metaphor: metaphors in dialogical explanations with addressees of different expertise - Frontiers
POETRY: A METAPHORIC WEALTH - Dawn
The Comprehension of Familiar and Novel Metaphoric Meanings in Schizophrenia: A Pilot Study - Frontiers
Enacting Metaphors in Systemic Collaborative Therapy - Frontiers
Like a moth to a flame, we’re drawn to metaphors to explain ourselves - The Guardian
For this neglected philosopher, metaphors make life an adventure - Psyche
Suppression of literal meaning in single and extended metaphors - Frontiers
Cognitive perspective of metaphors in Chinese Hua'er folksongs - Frontiers
Hey Siri, an ancient algorithm may help you grasp metaphors - University of California, Berkeley
Comprehending scientific metaphors in the bilingual brain: Evidence from event-related potentials - Frontiers
Why I Refuse to Talk About Cancer as a ‘War,’ ‘Fight,’ or ‘Battle’ - SELF Magazine
The Layered Metaphors of Broken Windows - Hyperallergic
In new cognitive research, people’s eyes reveal that clichés are underrated - Princeton University
“I Am Like a Lost Child”: L2 Writers' Linguistic Metaphors as a Window Into Their Writer Identity - Frontiers
Editorial: The Metaphorical Brain - Frontiers
Normed dataset for novel metaphors, novel similes, literal and anomalous sentences in Chinese - Frontiers
The Poetics and Politics of Our Mental Health Metaphors: An Interview with Laurence Kirmayer - Mad In America
Metaphors grow the mind and feed the soul. Don’t lose them - Aeon
How the Brain Finds Meaning in Metaphor - Association of American Universities (AAU)
Hemispheric Processing of Chinese Scientific Metaphors: Evidence via Hemifield Presentation - Frontiers
“GLASS.” “KILL.” “WHAT IF IF ONLY.” “IMP.”: THE METAPHORIC CARYL CHURCHILL - Theater Pizzazz
Metaphors of the Faith and Preparing to Meet God - Catholic Culture
With Apologies to Susan Sontag, We're Going to Need Metaphor to Get Through This Global Illness - Literary Hub
ATC’s “The Welkin” – Filled with Metaphoric Wonderment in its Compelling Wildness - front mezz junkies
Metaphor in Sign Languages - Frontiers
Metaphors for the future - Global Sisters Report
Transforming Mental Health Care with Cultural Narratives and Metaphors - Mad In America
Metaphors and medically unexplained symptoms - The Lancet
What Happens When a Metaphor Becomes Real? - Public Books
Prime effects in metaphor comprehension: comparing congruent and opposite schematic primes - Frontiers
Conceptual Metaphors for Designing Smart Environments: Device, Robot, and Friend - Frontiers
Why AI Design Needs Metaphors to Bridge the Gap With Consumers - ADWEEK
Green and black: the implicit color metaphor of environmental concepts and its impact on pro-environmental behavior - Nature
How metaphors shape women’s lives - BBC
Jennifer Grotz: "When Metaphor Gets Literal" - The Yale Review
Birds’ Nests, Spider Webs, and the Metaphors They Inspire - Fordham Now
A 12-Foot Statue Without a Pedestal, Metaphoric or Otherwise (Published 2023) - The New York Times
What Is the Target Domain in a Conceptual Metaphor? - ThoughtCo
‘Zootopia’ Acting Analysis: An Anthropomorphic And Metaphoric Muddle - Cartoon Brew
Large language models prompt engineering as a method for embodied cognitive linguistic representation: a case study of political metaphors in Trump’s discourse - Frontiers
To grasp metaphors, our brains get touchy-feely - futurity.org
Life is different for people who think in metaphors - British Psychological Society
Metaphors and Malignancy in Senator McCain’s Cancer Diagnosis - Nursing Clio
That kid is a grasshopper! Metaphor development from 3 to 9 years of age - Cambridge University Press & Assessment
Conventionality and context jointly modulate the effect of inhibitory control on L2 metaphor comprehension - Nature
Why do other people form imaginary shapes in our minds? - Aeon
Take a Deep Dive Into the Uses of Metaphor - ThoughtCo
"The Snake": What Trump's Use of Metaphors Reveals - PBS
Exploring Monsters as Metaphors in Horror Movies - Rutgers University
Metaphors of Big Data - vox.com
Learning to comprehend and explain spatial metaphors for time in Chinese - Cambridge University Press & Assessment
Fighting the Weightiness of Metaphors: A Conversation with M. Leona Godin - The Rumpus
Time Heals, Steals, and Flies: 20 Metaphors - ThoughtCo
A Gendered Lens—Literal and Metaphoric - Women’s Media Center
Cross-linguistic automated detection of metaphors for poverty andcancer | Language and Cognition | Cambridge Core - Cambridge University Press & Assessment
Do You Know What a Dead Metaphor Is? - ThoughtCo
Jerusalem: City and Metaphor - Yeshiva University
Turning Francis Ford Coppola’s Metaphoric Vision of ‘Megalopolis’ Into New Rome and the Titular Utopia - IMDb
Reasoning COVID-19: the use of spatial metaphor in times of a crisis - Nature
Gupta ’25: It’s time we rethink sexual metaphors to fit modern dating - The Brown Daily Herald
The Trouble With Medicine's Metaphors - The Atlantic
UA researcher: Studying how brain processes metaphors could aid efficient learning - Arizona Daily Star
Novel Metaphors Comprehension in a Child with High-Functioning Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Study on Assessment and Treatment - Frontiers
The roots of metaphor: the essence of thought - Frontiers
Why Wartime Metaphors Fail Us - Sojourners
Elaborating time in space: the structure and function of space–motion metaphors of time - Cambridge University Press & Assessment
Review: ‘God of Carnage’ Puts Parents in a Metaphoric Bull Ring (Published 2016) - The New York Times
Metaphor interpretation in Jordanian Arabic, Emirati Arabic and Classical Arabic: artificial intelligence vs. humans - Nature
The words that help us understand the world - BBC
COGMED: a database for Chinese olfactory and gustatory metaphor - Nature
Anim Zemirot: A Higher Level Meaning of a Metaphoric Piyut - The Jewish Link
Metaphor comprehension in the acquisition of Arabic | Journal of Child Language | Cambridge Core - Cambridge University Press & Assessment
The effect of incongruous contextual cues on pictorial metaphor processing - Frontiers
Frequency-based salience of dual meanings in conventional metaphor acquisition: Evidence from toddlers in Urban England | Language and Cognition | Cambridge Core - Cambridge University Press & Assessment
The Overnight Retention of Novel Metaphors Associates With Slow Oscillation–Spindle Coupling but Not With Respiratory Phase at Encoding - Frontiers
What Is a Source Domain in a Conceptual Metaphor? - ThoughtCo
Metaphors escape the sensory world and extend our thoughts to the intangible. - Psychology Today
The Ubiquity of Metaphor - Behavioral Scientist
On Hacky Metaphors, Sentimentality and Why It’s... - PropertyOfZack
Foreign Language Equivalents
Foreign Language Equivalents of 'metaphoric'
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Misspellings - Typos
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Words Starting with Letter - 'A'
a a battery a billion
a bit a bit much a capella singing
a cappella singing a couple of a few
a fortiori a good deal a great deal
a horizon a hundred a hundred and one
a hundred thousand a hundred times a kempis
a la carte a la mode a level
a little a lot a million
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