Crossword-Solution: METAPHORICAL 12 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 21

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Metaphorical a. Of or pertaining to metaphor; comprising a metaphor;
not literal; figurative; tropical; as, a metaphorical expression; a
metaphorical sense.

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expressing one thing in terms normally denoting another 1 answer
metaphoric language 1 answer
Figurative. 48 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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greedy person
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The metaphorical location of a human so dazed and/or confused or caught up in some esoteric form of {bogosity} that he or she no longer responds coherently to normal communication.
The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 Various 1992
While the girl burst into unrestrained sobbing, the boy, feeling the full difficulty of the conflict between youth and manhood, choked his tears back, and knowing his father to be a philosophical type, tried to see the metaphorical application of this event.
Stories From the Old Attic Robert Harris 1995
Having a breast; Ð used in composition with qualifying words, in either a literal or a metaphorical sense; as, a singleÐbreasted coat.
Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Noah Webster 1995
And when I said that my father was a smasher, I meant one who passes forged notes, thereby doing his best to smash the Bank of England; by being lagged, I meant he was laid fast, that is, had a chain put round his leg and then transported." "Your explanations are quite satisfactory," said I; "the three first words are metaphorical, and the fourth, lagged, is the old genuine Norse term, lagda, which signifies laid, whether in durance, or in bed, has nothing to do with the matter.
The Romany Rye George Borrow 2007
Smooth-it-away, while we remained in the smoky and lurid cavern, took occasion to prove that Tophet has not even a metaphorical existence.
Mosses from an Old Manse Nathaniel Hawthorne 1996

Quotes with METAPHORICAL (3)

Clearly, America has no shortage of metaphorical opportunities for the poor.
Stephen Colbert I Am America
I now turn to a *subjective* consideration that belongs here; yet I can give even less distinctness to it than to the objective consideration just discussed, for I shall be able to express it only by image and simile. Why is our consciousness brighter and more distinct the farther it reaches outwards, so that its greatest clearness lies in sense perception, which already half belongs to things outside us; and, on the other hand, becomes more obscure as we go inwards, and lead…
Arthur Schopenhauer
Every faith in the world is based on fabrication. That is the definition of faith―acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove. Every religion describes God through metaphor, allegory, and exaggeration, from the early Egyptians through modern Sunday school. Metaphors are a way to help our minds process the unprocessible. The problems arise when we begin to believe literally in our own metaphors. Should we wave a flag and tell the Buddhists that w…
Dan Brown The Da Vinci Code