Words and phrases that have a meaning related to likening: (123 results)
Often used in the same context:
describing, referring, characterizing, comparing, decrying, praising, mocked, disparaged, derided, denounced, criticizing, lambasted, ridiculed, railed, assailed, equating, castigated, lampooned, alluding, dubbed, upbraid, chided, lauding, depicted, nicknaming, portraying, mimicking, referencing, accusing, belittled, resembled, called, terming, extolling, excoriates, chastising, condemning, evoking, reviling, ranted, contrasted, rebuking, denigrated, flays, lambast, angered, blasted, remarking, blaming, savaged, bemoaned, dismisses, pilloried, slams, inveighed, deplored, satirized, defends, picturing, prefigured, criticising, gibed, euphemized, invoking, predated, disobliging, attributing, insinuating, recreates, justifying, harangued, coining, infuriated, harkened, fulminated, personifying, retorting, berated, smacks, fearmonger, lamenting, dissects, incensed, resented, revolting, popularized, demonized, hoodwinks, sneered, reeks, vilified, touting, legitimizing, yoking, deprecating, mistook, ascribes, bristled, needled, crucifying, provoked, irked, contributors, abolitionists, admonition, alumni, amours, anarchists, anti, anticlericalism, apostles, arabians, ascription, assertion, astronauts, attribution, avatars, bathers, battleground, battlegrounds, battles, boast
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— Adjectives for likening: metaphorical, old, famous, earlier, active, frequent
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