Simile

Noun

 * 1) A figure of speech in which one thing is compared to another, in the case of English generally using like or as.
 * A simile is like a metaphor.

Hypernyms

 * figure of speech

Related terms

 * dissimile
 * similar


 * similarity
 * simulate

Adjectives for Simile
absurd; chilling; amiable; expressive; good; swift; felicitous; sickly; oftrepeated; natural; arctic; happy; apt.

Verbs for Simile
employ—; enlist—; garble—; resort to—; revel in—; —alludes; —colors; —contrasts

Thesaurus
accordance, affinity, agreement, alikeness, allegory, alliance, alliteration, allusion, anacoluthon, anadiplosis, analogy, anaphora, anastrophe, antiphrasis, antithesis, antonomasia, aping, apophasis, aporia, aposiopesis, apostrophe, approach, approximation, assimilation, balancing, catachresis, chiasmus, circumlocution, climax, closeness, community, comparability, comparative anatomy, comparative degree, comparative grammar, comparative judgment, comparative linguistics, comparative literature, comparative method, compare, comparing, comparison, conformity, confrontation, confrontment, contrast, contrastiveness, conversion, copying, correlation, correspondence, distinction, distinctiveness, ecphonesis, emphasis, exclamation, gemination, hypallage, hyperbaton, hyperbole, identity, imitation, inversion, irony, likeness, likening, litotes, malapropism, matching, meiosis, metaphor, metonymy, mimicking, nearness, onomatopoeia, opposing, opposition, oxymoron, parallelism, paregmenon, parenthesis, parity, periphrasis, personification, pleonasm, preterition, prolepsis, proportion, regression, relation, repetition, resemblance, sameness, sarcasm, semblance, similarity, similitude, simulation, spoonerism, syllepsis, symploce, synecdoche, trope of comparison, weighing, zeugma

Etymology
First attested 1393, from simile ("comparison, likeness", "parallel"), originally from simile the neuter form of similis ("like, similar, resembling"). Confer the English similar.

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 直喻, 明喻, 譬喻, 比喻
 * Czech:
 * Danish: ,
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: vertaus
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian: hasonlat


 * Icelandic:, samlíking
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 直喩, 比喩, シミレ
 * Korean: 직유 (直喻)
 * Polish: porównanie
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:

Anagrams

 * smilie

Adverb
simile


 * 1) similarly

Adjective

 * 1) similar
 * 2) * Non è molto simile. It is not very similar.

Etymology
From similis:.

Synonyms

 * similare

Antonyms

 * diverso, differente, dissimile

Related terms

 * similitudine
 * similmente
 * simil-