tropological

expressing one thing in terms normally used for another a tropological construct that no reader of the Bible should take literally Synonyms extended, figural, metaphoric (or metaphorical), tropical, figurativeRelated Words Aesopian (also Aesopic), allegorical, emblematic (also emblematical), symbolic (also symbolical); catachrestic (or catachrestical), sylleptic; euphemistic; nonliteral, veritableNear Antonyms literal; nonsymbolicAntonyms nonfigurative, nonmetaphorical