WordNet: metaphor

a figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity

• hypernym figure, figure of speech, image, trope

• hyponym dead metaphor, frozen metaphor

• hyponym mixed metaphor

• hyponym synesthetic metaphor

metaphor

• (englanti) metaphorical (derivationally related)

• (englanti) metaphoric (derivationally related)
• (suomi) metafora (synonyymi)