Crossword-Solution: METAPHORIC
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Metaphoric | a. | Alt. of Metaphorical |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| METAPHORIC | anagram | AMPHOTERIC |
We have 4 clues for the answer “METAPHORIC”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Drawing a parallel, in a sense | 1 answer |
| Like "chariot of fire" for the sun | 1 answer |
| Like "cold feet" for timidity | 1 answer |
| Not literal | 2 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETERA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with METAPHORIC (5)
The metaphoric use of interactivity, as it is practiced to express an animistic attitude according to which, for instance, the text is alive, and we interact with it in reading, interpreting, and understanding it, addresses a different issue.
Ancient philosophy, important here for its testimony regarding language and literacy, is still so metaphoric that it can be read as literature, and actually was enjoyed as such.
Except for metaphoric qualifications, there is no such thing as drawing an abstraction of drawing, although there is abstract drawing.
The builder and maker of this New Jerusalem is God, as we read in the 575:12 book of Hebrews; and it is "a city which hath founda- tions." The description is metaphoric.
Burke could form a metaphoric vision that would satisfy no imagination but his own: but I, who am nullius addiclus itrare in verba, have no hopes either in our resources or in our geniuses, and look on my country already as undone! It is grievous--but I shall not have much time to lament its fall!(412) (409) On the 3d of October occurred one of the most dreadful hurricanes ever experienced in the West Indies.
Quotes with METAPHORIC (3)
Slightly higher density polarized negative entities", regardless of their actual metaphoric names. What's in a name... a rose still has thorns!
The masters of information have forgotten about poetry, where words may have a meaning quite different from what the lexicon says, where the metaphoric spark is always one jump ahead of the decoding function, where another, unforeseen reading is always possible.
Shepherd Book: What are we up to, sweetheart? River: Fixing your Bible. Book: I, um... What? River: Bible's broken. Contradictions, false logistics - doesn't make sense. Shepherd Book: No, no. You-you-you can't... River: So we'll integrate non-progressional evolution theory with God's creation of Eden. Eleven inherent metaphoric parallels already there. Eleven. Important number. Prime number. One goes into the house of eleven eleven times, but always comes out one. Noah's ark…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Newsday, NYT, WSJ.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (2000–2021).