Metaphorically Definition

adverb

(manner) In a metaphoric manner; not literally; by means of metaphor.

He conveyed his teachings metaphorically.
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(speech act) Used to draw attention that what follows is a metaphor, not to be taken literally.

Metaphorically, he was crushed.
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Metaphorically Sentence Examples

  • Meanwhile the name of El Dorado came to be used metaphorically of any place where wealth could be rapidly acquired.

  • For example, we metaphorically conceptualize numbers as points on a line.

  • A similar use of birch rods has continued among pedagogues to times so recent that the birch is yet, literally or metaphorically, the instrument of school-room discipline.

  • The word is used literally in biology; and metaphorically in prosody or grammar for a verse or sentence with a beginning wanting.

  • The foolishness and obstinacy of the ass has caused the name to be transferred metaphorically to human beings; and the fifth proposition of Book i.

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