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Crossword-Solution: SIMILES 7 letters, 45 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

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Word Word Type Definition
Similes pl. of Simile

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SIMILES anagram MISSILE

We have 45 clues for the answer “SIMILES”

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Metaphors' relatives 1 answer
Figures of speech comparing unlike things with "like" or "as" 1 answer
Animal analogies, often 1 answer
Comparative figures of speech 1 answer
Comparative phrases 1 answer
Figures of speech often including "as a" 1 answer
Fit as a fiddle and tough as nails 1 answer
Like expressions? 1 answer
Literary comparisons 1 answer
Mad as a hatter et al. 1 answer
Many "as"-in-middle phrases 1 answer
"Smart as a whip" and "sharp as a tack" 1 answer
Phrases with "as a" in the middle 1 answer
Plath ploys 1 answer
Poetic analogies 1 answer
Poets' comparisons. 1 answer
Rhetorical comparisons 1 answer
Comparisons using "like" or "as" 1 answer
Some tropes 1 answer
They use "like" in a non-Valley Girl way 1 answer
figures of speech that express a resemblance between things of different kinds 1 answer
happy as a clam&"blind as a bat" 1 answer
"She's Like the Wind" and others 1 answer
"Fit as a fiddle" and "free as a bird" 1 answer
"Free as a bird" and others 1 answer
"Fresh as a daisy" and others 1 answer
"Good as gold" and "fresh as a daisy" 1 answer
"Good as gold" and "right as rain" 1 answer
"Good as gold" and the like 1 answer
"Good as gold" et al. 1 answer
"Happy as a clam" and "blind as a bat" 1 answer
"Light as a feather" and "stiff as a board" 1 answer
"Like a patient etherized upon a table" and others 1 answer
"Mad as a hatter" and "crazy as a loon" 1 answer
"My Luve's like a red red rose" and others 1 answer
Like words 2 answers
Literary figures 2 answers
Poetic devices 2 answers
Good as gold, and others? 2 answers
Comparisons 2 answers
Analogies 3 answers
Like things 4 answers
Figures of speech 7 answers
COLON IN ANALOGIES 10 answers
cadaver poetic words 11 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ARETE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with SIMILES (5)

Veteran mariners fill their conversation with sailor-phrases and draw all their similes from the ship and the sea and the storm, but no mere _passenger_ ever does it, be he of Stratford or elsewhere; or could do it with anything resembling accuracy, if he were hardy enough to try.
What Is Man? And Other Stories Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 1993
Were there any way to parade the circumstance and bedeck it with pleasing adornments of filed phrases, tropes and far-fetched similes, I would not grudge you a deal of verbal pageantry.
The Certain Hour James Branch Cabell 2008
Then, in a word, shall the old-established vendor of periodicals sit alone in his little crib of a shop behind the Holborn Gate, like that lumbering Marius among the ruins of Carthage, who has sat heavy on a thousand million of similes.
The Uncommercial Traveller Charles Dickens 1997
For Love and Youth were vext with doubt, Like ships on driving seas, And in those days the heart gave out Unthankful similes.
The Poems of Henry Kendall Henry Kendall 1997
The danger that comes in with the employment of figures of speech, similes, and comparisons is greater still.
Style Walter Raleigh 2013

Quotes with SIMILES (3)

Dearest creature in creation, Study English pronunciation. I will teach you in my verse Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse. I will keep you, Suzy, busy, Make your head with heat grow dizzy. Tear in eye, your dress will tear. So shall I! Oh hear my prayer. Just compare heart, beard, and heard, Dies and diet, lord and word, Sword and sward, retain and Britain.(Mind the latter, how it’s written.) Now I surely will not plague you With such words as plaque and ague. But b…
Gerard Nolst Trenite Drop your Foreign Accent
Where to start? Everything cracks and shakes, The air trembles with similes, No one world's better than another; the earth moans with metaphors.
Osip Mandelstam Selected Poems
When describing nature, a writer should seize upon small details, arranging them so that the reader will see an image in his mind after he closes his eyes. For instance: you will capture the truth of a moonlit night if you'll write that a gleam like starlight shone from the pieces of a broken bottle, and then the dark, plump shadow of a dog or wolf appeared. You will bring life to nature only if you don't shrink from similes that liken its activities to those of humankind.", May 10, 1886)
Anton Chekhov
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.

Used 42 times in crossword archives (1955–2024).