Synonyms of metaphors

metaphors

noun

plural of metaphor

as in analogies

an elaborate or fanciful way of expressing something

"it's raining cats and dogs" is just a colorful metaphor and not a meteorological announcement

Synonyms & Similar Words

• analogies
• devices
• figures of speech
• conceits
• similes
• circumlocutions
• euphemisms
• code words
• dead metaphors
• mixed metaphors
• cranks
• catachreses

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of metaphors

As mental shortcuts, or heuristic devices, metaphors are common in political communication. — David Rooney, The Conversation, 10 July 2026

When considering the concept of instruments as metaphors, Hart was on TC’s side of the argument. — Sabrina Reed, Forbes.com, 6 July 2026

Gyllenhaal’s movie took heat for wanting to be too many things at once, but this is one of The Bell Jar’s central metaphors. — Literary Hub, 1 July 2026

The face’s centrality to social life is inscribed in our language, in the metaphors that betray our world view. — Cal Revely-Calder, New Yorker, 29 June 2026

Take Hogarth, whose moral series seem to me to be exploring how storytelling works through metaphors of paths and journeys. — Clare Bucknell, The New York Review of Books, 27 June 2026

Pardon me for sounding like the Grinch, to mix my cartoon metaphors, but if a film critic doesn’t take the Toy Story series seriously, who will? — Peter Tonguette, The Washington Examiner, 27 June 2026

Along the way, LePage fills the film with imaginative emotional landmarks from the Island of the Flakes to the Kind Heart Outlet and whimsical visual metaphors, including a wobbling mound of Jell-O that becomes an unlikely symbol of resilience. — Destiny Jackson, Deadline, 26 June 2026

The Iliad is awash in farming metaphors. — Alexandra Petri, The Atlantic, 25 June 2026