Crossword-Solution: SIMILE 6 letters, 138 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

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Word	Word Type	Definition
Simile	n.	A word or phrase by which anything is likened, in one or more of its aspects, to something else; a similitude; a poetical or imaginative comparison.

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Word		Anagrams
SIMILE	anagram	LIMIES

We have 138 clues for the answer “SIMILE”

Clue	Answers
"As American as apple pie," for example	1 answer
"As clear as mud," e.g.	1 answer
"As easy as pie," for one	1 answer
"Big as life," for one	1 answer
"Cheeks like roses," for example.	1 answer
"Clean as a whistle," e.g.	1 answer
"Clear as mud," for example	1 answer
"Cold as ice" or "big as life"	1 answer
"Cold as ice," for example	1 answer
"Cool as a cucumber," e.g.	1 answer
"Cool as a cucumber," for example	1 answer
"Cool as a cucumber," for one	1 answer
"Eyes like stars," e.g.	1 answer
"Float like a butterfly" or "sting like a bee"	1 answer
"Float like a butterfly," e.g.	1 answer
"Fresh as a daisy," e.g.	1 answer
"Hard as nails," for one	1 answer
"Healthy as a horse," e.g.	1 answer
"Hot as Tophet," for example.	1 answer
"Hot as a pistol," e.g.	1 answer
"I'm just like my country / I'm young, scrappy, and hungry," e.g.	1 answer
"Life is like a box of chocolates," e.g.	1 answer
"Lips like cherries," e.g.	1 answer
"My Love is Like a Red, Red Rose," e.g.	1 answer
"Pretty as a picture," e.g.	1 answer
"Proud as a peacock," e.g.	1 answer
"Quiet as a mouse," e.g.	1 answer
"Red as a rose" is one	1 answer
"Right as rain," e.g.	1 answer
"Sharp as a tack," for example	1 answer
"Sick as a dog," for instance	1 answer
"Smart as a whip," e.g.	1 answer
"Smart as a whip," for instance	1 answer
"Snug as a bug in a rug," e.g.	1 answer
"Snug as a bug," for instance.	1 answer
"Thick as thieves," e.g.	1 answer
'Cute as a button,' e.g.	1 answer
'Sharp as a tack,' e.g.	1 answer
A trope	1 answer
As easy as pie, say	1 answer
As fit as a fiddle for one	1 answer
As good as gold, e.g.	1 answer
As hot as hell, e.g.	1 answer
As plain as day, e.g.	1 answer
Bit of literary imagery	1 answer
Black as night, e.g.	1 answer
Cheeks like roses, e.g.	1 answer
Colorful analogy, perhaps	1 answer
Colorful comparison	1 answer
Comparative construction	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.

Hint 2 anagram

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Hint 3 another clue

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Sentences with SIMILE (5)

But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the Country's done for.

A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens 1992

The effect is as if the voice had been dyed black; or,—if we must use a more moderate simile,—this miserable croak, running through all the variations of the voice, is like a black silken thread, on which the crystal beads of speech are strung, and whence they take their hue.

The House of the Seven Gables Nathaniel Hawthorne 1993

Like them we shall travel towards the sunrise; and like them, if we fall, we fall in good cause.” He paused and I said:-- “But will not the Count take his rebuff wisely? Since he has been driven from England, will he not avoid it, as a tiger does the village from which he has been hunted?” “Aha!” he said, “your simile of the tiger good, for me, and I shall adopt him.

Dracula Bram Stoker 1995

This is merely a simile poetically worked out; and yet it is in such as these, and some others, to be mentioned further on, that the author seems at his best.

Lay Morals Robert Louis Stevenson 2010

The man may die, but the race survives and continues the work,--to use the poet's simile, mounting on stepping-stones of dead selves to higher selves.

Industrial Biography Samuel Smiles 2008

Quotes with SIMILE (3)

A broken heart in real life isn't half as dreadful as it is in books. It's a good deal like a bad tooth, though you won't think THAT a very romantic simile. It takes spells of aching and gives you a sleepless night now and then, but between times it lets you enjoy life and dreams and echoes and peanut candy as if there were nothing the matter with it.

L. M. Montgomery

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

You see, it's really quite simple. A simile is just a mode of comparison employing 'as' and 'like' to reveal the hidden character or essence of whatever we want to describe, and through the use of fancy, association, contrast, extension, or imagination, to enlarge our understanding or perception of human experience and observation.

Norton Juster As Silly as Knees, As Busy as Bees: An Astounding Assortment of Similes

Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 107 times in crossword archives (1942–2025).