Word Meanings - TROPICAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Rhetorically changed from its exact original sense; being of the nature of a trope; figurative; metaphorical. Jer. Taylor. The foundation of all parables is some analogy or similitude between the tropical or allusive part of the parable and the

Additional info about word: TROPICAL

Rhetorically changed from its exact original sense; being of the nature of a trope; figurative; metaphorical. Jer. Taylor. The foundation of all parables is some analogy or similitude between the tropical or allusive part of the parable and the thing intended by it. South. Tropic month. See Lunar month, under Month. -- Tropic year, the solar year; the period occupied by the sun in passing from one tropic or one equinox to the same again, having a mean length of 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes, 46.0 seconds, which is 20 minutes, 23.3 seconds shorter than the sidereal year, on account of the precession of the equinoxes. (more info) 1. Of or pertaining to the tropics; characteristic of, or incident to, the tropics; being within the tropics; as, tropical climate; tropical latitudes; tropical heat; tropical diseases. 2. Etym:

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of TROPICAL)

• Figurative
• Metaphorical
• poetical
• tropical
• rhetorical
• symbolical
• typical
• emblematical

Related words: (words related to TROPICAL)

• TROPICALLY
  In a tropical manner; figuratively; metaphorically.
• TYPICAL
  Combining or exhibiting the essential characteristics of a group; as, a typical genus. -- Typ"ic*al*ly, adv. -- Typ"ic*al*ness, n. (more info) 1. Of the nature of a type; representing something by a form, model, or resemblance; emblematic;
• POETICALLY
  In a poetic manner.
• RHETORICAL
  Of or pertaining to rhetoric; according to, or exhibiting, rhetoric; oratorical; as, the rhetorical art; a rhetorical treatise; a rhetorical flourish. They permit him to leave their poetical taste ungratified, provided that he gratifies
• TROPICAL
  Rhetorically changed from its exact original sense; being of the nature of a trope; figurative; metaphorical. Jer. Taylor. The foundation of all parables is some analogy or similitude between the tropical or allusive part of the parable and the
• FIGURATIVE
  1. Representing by a figure, or by resemblance; typical; representative. This, they will say, was figurative, and served, by God's appointment, but for a time, to shadow out the true glory of a more divine sanctity. Hooker. 2. Used in a sense that
• SUBTYPICAL
  Deviating somewhat from the type of a species, genus, or other group; slightly aberrant.
• ATYPIC; ATYPICAL
  That has no type; devoid of typical character; irregular; unlike the type.
• ETYPICAL
  Diverging from, or lacking conformity to, a type.
• HOMOTYPIC; HOMOTYPICAL
  See HOMOTYPAL
• PREFIGURATIVE
  Showing by prefiguration. "The prefigurative atonement." Bp. Horne.
• INTERTROPICAL
  Situated between or within the tropics. J. Morse.
• EXTRATROPICAL
  Beyond or outside of the tropics. Whewell.
• ARCHETYPICAL
  Relating to an archetype; archetypal.
• INTRATROPICAL
  Within the tropics.
• SUBTROPICAL
  Nearly tropical.
• SYMBOLIC; SYMBOLICAL
  Of or pertaining to a symbol or symbols; of the nature of a symbol; exhibiting or expressing by resemblance or signs; representative; as, the figure of an eye is symbolic of sight and knowledge. -- Sym*bol"ic*al*ly, adv. -- Sym*bol"ic*al*ness, n.
• METAPHORIC; METAPHORICAL
  Of or pertaining to metaphor; comprising a metaphor; not literal; figurative; tropical; as, a metaphorical expression; a metaphorical sense. -- Met`a*phor"ic*al*ly, adv. -- Met`a*phor"ic*al*ness, n.
• PHONOTYPIC; PHONOTYPICAL
  Of or pertaining to phonotypy; as, a phonotypic alphabet.
• EMBLEMATIC; EMBLEMATICAL
  Pertaining to, containing, or consisting in, an emblem; symbolic; typically representative; representing as an emblem; as, emblematic language or ornaments; a crown is emblematic of royalty; white is emblematic of purity. -- Em`blem*at"ic*al*ly,
• ULTRATROPICAL
  Situated beyond, or outside of, the tropics; extratropical; also, having an excessively tropical temperature; warmer than the tropics.
• ALLOTROPIC; ALLOTROPICAL
  Of or pertaining to allotropism. -- Al`lo*trop"ic*al*ly, adv. Allotropic state, the several conditions which occur in a case of allotropism.