Words Like SIMILE

We have put together a list of words that are similar to SIMILE.

3 Alternative Words Similar to simile

1 Figure Noun      Synonym Words Like Figure
2 Image Noun      Synonym Words Like Image
3 Trope Noun      Synonym Words Like Trope

6 definitions of simile

1 A word or phrase by which anything is likened, in one or more of its aspects, to something else; a similitude; a poetical or imaginative comparison.
2 a figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with `like' or `as')
3 A figure of speech in which two essentially unlike things are compared, often in a phrase introduced by like or as, as in "How like the winter hath my absence been” or "So are you to my thoughts as food to life” (Shakespeare).
4 In rhetoric, the comparing or likening of two things having some strong point or points of resemblance, both of which are mentioned and the comparison directly stated; a poetic or imaginative comparison; also, the verbal expression or embodiment of such a comparison.
5 In music, in the same manner; similarly. Compare sempre.
6 A figure of speech in which one thing is compared to another, in the case of English generally using like or as.
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