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allegorical

/ˌæl.ɪˈɡɔɹ.ɪ.kəl/

allegorical adjective: of, relating to, or containing allegory.

Adjective

allegorical (comparative more allegorical, superlative most allegorical)

  1. Of, relating to, or containing allegory.
    • An allegorical application.c. 1717, Alexander Pope, remarks on Thomas Parnell's Battle of the Frogs and Mice
    • Allegorical being […] that kind of language which says one thing, but means another.1861, Friedrich Max Müller, Lectures on the Science of Language
    Synonyms:
    allegoric

allegorical meaning in Urdu and Malayalam

allegorical in Urdu

مجازی

allegorical in Malayalam

symbolic, figurative, metaphorical
ദൃഷ്ടാന്തരൂപമായ, പ്രതിരൂപാത്മകം, ലാക്ഷണികമായ, ഔപമിക, ഉപമാരൂപത്തിലുള്ള, സങ്കേതരൂപമായ

Examples of allegorical in a sentence

  • On his bas-reliefs and plaques, allegorical, stylized, and muscular heroes break their chains and brandish large swords.
  • DO you really believe you have a handle on anything, let alone astrophilia and allegorical texts?
  • Along these lines we can approach a pure allegorical reading — pure in being univocal, not hybridized.

All 10 example sentences with allegorical

Synonyms of allegorical

Forms of allegorical

comparativemore allegorical
superlativemost allegorical

Words formed from allegorical

Questions about allegorical

What does allegorical mean?
Allegorical means of, relating to, or containing allegory.
What is allegorical in Urdu?
Allegorical in Urdu is مجازی. See Allegorical meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is allegorical?
Allegorical is an adjective.
How do you pronounce allegorical?
Allegorical is pronounced /ˌæl.ɪˈɡɔɹ.ɪ.kəl/ (US).

Words near allegorical in the dictionary

  1. allegience
  2. alleging
  3. allegings
  4. allegoresis
  5. allegoric
  6. allegorical
  7. allegoricality
  8. allegorically
  9. allegoricalness
  10. allegorics
  11. allegoried

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Adapted from Wiktionary: allegorical (page history and authors); allegorical (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); allegorical (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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