ALLEGORICAL Synonyms: 68 Similar and Opposite Words

allegorical

adjective

Definition of allegorical

as in symbolic

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Recent Examples of allegorical Cornices, marble, allegorical touches, and the building’s old grandeur all help create a dramatic atmosphere. — Jim Dobson, Forbes.com, 18 June 2026 By now, the story of the ‘Nova Knicks is almost allegorical. — Mike Vorkunov, New York Times, 10 June 2026 Cardinale was particularly fond of the shape, which the brand used as an allegorical representation of its birth city’s many cupolas. — Lily Templeton, Footwear News, 22 May 2026 Naturalists and later scientists also protested such allegorical uses of primates. — Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 18 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for allegorical

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Adjective

Nominal damages are a small symbolic sum of money awarded when a legal right is violated.

— Jack Harvel August 26, Kansas City Star, 26 Aug. 2026
Cadet will work with architect Rodney Leon, who is also of Haitian descent, and who will advise on the interpretive writing and symbolic elements of the statue and its lighting and siting.

— Adam Harrington, CBS News, 24 Aug. 2026

Definition of symbolic

Adjective

Nothing beats the straightforward thrills of this stylish actioner, which turns Reeves into a hybrid of Alain Delon, Chow Yun-fat, and Lee Marvin from Point Blank (1967) and filters him through a less old-fashioned, more pulp-mythological lens.

— Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 14 Aug. 2026
Ancient Greek poets Homer and Hesiod helped cement the mountain's mythological importance through their writings, and stories about Olympus eventually spread throughout the Greek and Roman worlds.

— Brittany Anas, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2026

Definition of mythological

Adjective

Susi Singer’s figurative candlestick has style and sass that owes at least partly to its earthenware origins, favored at the Werkstätte for its affordability over porcelain, but much less capable of refined shapes.

— Emily Watlington, ARTnews.com, 24 Aug. 2026
Clear non-starters with Ellison and Para execs, the agenda points also reflect the wide figurative and literal distance between the AGs, their lawsuit partners the WGA and the Melrose lot.

— Dominic Patten, Deadline, 24 Aug. 2026

Definition of figurative

Adjective

Out on a wooden platform extending over San Diego’s Mission Bay, young women sway from side to side, riding an imaginary wave to the beats.

— Kailyn Brown, Los Angeles Times, 21 Aug. 2026
Just before the pandemic, Manhattan’s MCC Theater staged a show called All the Natalie Portmans, about a gay Black teenage cinephile who envisions the actor as a kind of manic pixie imaginary friend.

— Hillary Busis, Vanity Fair, 17 Aug. 2026

Definition of imaginary

Adjective

Marshall’s detractors say the Florida property is emblematic of a lawmaker who is out of touch with his constituents.

— Matthew Kelly, Kansas City Star, 24 Aug. 2026
Swodoba posits that the subject’s dress is emblematic of fashions that were popular in Rome around 1670.

— News Desk, Artforum, 21 Aug. 2026

Definition of emblematic

Adjective

To fill that nostalgic envelope, the Beckers called on designer Kelsey Sundberg, who conceived a fanciful storyline for the interiors.

— Hannah Martin, Architectural Digest, 21 Aug. 2026
That’s especially the case when the puppets belong to String & Shadow Puppet Theater, an Olympia, Washington,-based troupe known for its fanciful and lighthearted productions, presented each summer in a traveling tour.

— Randy McMullen, Mercury News, 13 Aug. 2026

Definition of fanciful

Adjective

From figural bakers to upgraded pans, the new collection takes fall baking to a whole other level.

— Claire Hoppe Norgaard, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 Aug. 2026
Display of a walking staff with a figural head and wooden ladles reveal a history of carving among the cultures Lewis was raised in.

— Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 13 Feb. 2026

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