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ALLEGORICAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does allegorical mean? 

ALLEGORICAL (adjective)
  The adjective ALLEGORICAL has 1 sense:

1. used in or characteristic of or containing allegoryplay

  Familiarity information: ALLEGORICAL used as an adjective is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


ALLEGORICAL (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Used in or characteristic of or containing allegory

Synonyms:

allegoric; allegorical

Context example:

an allegorical painting of Victory leading an army

Similar:

representative (standing for something else)

Derivation:

allegory (an expressive style that uses fictional characters and events to describe some subject by suggestive resemblances; an extended metaphor)

allegory (a short moral story (often with animal characters))

allegory (a visible symbol representing an abstract idea)


 Context examples 


That's his allegorical way of expressing it.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)



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