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tropological

tropological adjective: relating to or involving the interpretation of literature focusing on the ethical lesson or moral of the story.

Adjective

tropological (comparative more tropological, superlative most tropological)

  1. Relating to or involving the interpretation of literature focusing on the ethical lesson or moral of the story.
    • tropological , allegorical expositions1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC
    • Even the widely revered description of alchemy as terrestrial astronomy was a tropological association, comparing one discipline to the other rather than using the tools of the former in the operation of the latter.2001, William Royall Newman, Anthony Grafton, Secrets of Nature: Astrology and Alchemy in Early Modern Europe, →ISBN, page 27
  2. Characterized by tropes; varied by tropes; tropical.

Forms of tropological

comparativemore tropological
superlativemost tropological

Words formed from tropological

Questions about tropological

What does tropological mean?
Tropological means relating to or involving the interpretation of literature focusing on the ethical lesson or moral of the story.
What part of speech is tropological?
Tropological is an adjective.

Words near tropological in the dictionary

  1. tropocollagens
  2. tropodithietic acid
  3. tropoelastin
  4. tropoelastins
  5. tropologic
  6. tropological
  7. tropologically
  8. tropologies
  9. tropologise
  10. tropologised
  11. tropologises

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