adj. metaphorical, non-literal, allusive, analogic(al), analogous, figurative, symbolic, referential, parabolic(al), metonymic, metonymous, tropological I meant 'filthy' in a metaphoric, not a literal, sense
METAPHORIC
Meaning of METAPHORIC in English
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