METAPHORICALLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does metaphorically mean? 

• METAPHORICALLY (adverb)
  The adverb METAPHORICALLY has 1 sense:

1. in a metaphorical manner

  Familiarity information: METAPHORICALLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• METAPHORICALLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a metaphorical manner

Context example:

she expressed herself metaphorically

Pertainym:

metaphorical (expressing one thing in terms normally denoting another)

 Context examples 

Enough love might have been wrung out of me, metaphorically speaking, to drown anybody in; and yet there would have remained enough within me, and all over me, to pervade my entire existence.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The maneuver did not succeed as well as she expected, however, for though just in the act of setting fire to a funeral pyre, the Professor dropped his torch, metaphorically speaking, and made a dive after the little blue ball.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)