Phrase Hound found 4 phrases and 12 compound words that contain metaphor. The most common are listed below. Open metaphor in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 4
- mixed metaphorAn overreaching, contradictory or incongruous combination of two distinct metaphors, similes or idioms.
- extended metaphorA metaphor that is continued over multiple sentences.
- dead metaphorA former metaphor which has in effect lost its metaphorical status and become literal.
- conceptual metaphorThe understanding of one idea or conceptual domain in terms of another.
Compound words 12
- metaphorizeTo describe using metaphors.
- metaphorizationThe process of metaphorizing.
- metaphoremeA non-literal expression with a relatively fixed lexicogrammatical form and specific semantics and pragmatics, associated with metaphoric language.
- metaphoricianOne who employs metaphors.
- metaphoristSomeone who makes, or uses metaphors.
- metaphorologyThe study of how metaphor is used in language.
- malaphorAn idiom blend: an error in which two similar figures of speech are merged, producing an often nonsensical result.
- supermetaphorA grounding fact; a correspondance between the underlying truth and our ideas and constructions based on that truth.
- metaphoricsThe use of metaphor generally.
- metaphoriseAlternative spelling of metaphorize: To describe using metaphors.