What is another word for allegory?
1517 synonyms foundPronunciation:
[ ˈalɪɡəɹˌi], [ ˈalɪɡəɹˌi], [ ˈa_l_ɪ_ɡ_ə_ɹ_ˌi]Table of Contents
Similar words for allegory:- allegory (noun)
- communication (noun)
- comparison (noun)
- fable (noun)
- fictitious story, often ancient (noun)
- figure of speech (noun)
- indirect representation, storytelling (noun)
- myth (noun)
- old wives' tale (noun)
- parable (noun)
- popular belief (noun)
- similitude (noun)
- story (noun)
- other synonyms
- other relevant words
Synonyms for Allegory:
n.
•allegory (noun) •communication (noun) •comparison (noun) •fable (noun)- old saw,
- fairy story,
- one for bird,
- figment,
- fairy stories,
- hogwash,
- tall story,
- one for birds,
- un-truth,
- one for the birds,
- old saws,
- romance,
- bestiary,
- un truths,
- un-truths,
- old chestnuts,
- one for the bird,
- un truth,
- tall stories,
- old chestnut,
- bestiaries.
- myth.
- onomatopoeia,
- Tropology,
- apostrophes,
- apostrophe,
- turn of phrase,
- manner of speaking,
- tropes,
- way of speaking,
- aposiopesis,
- synecdoche,
- anaphora,
- proteron,
- malapropisms,
- alliteration,
- metonymies,
- oxymora,
- ellipsis,
- oxymoron,
- antistrophe,
- echoism,
- communication that is not meant literally; stylistic device,
- Ellipses,
- Asyndeton,
- adumbration,
- malapropism,
- litotes,
- alliterations,
- metonymy,
- onomatopoeias.
- false knowledge,
- superstitious belief,
- false belief,
- old wives tale,
- false beliefs,
- superstitious beliefs,
- false knowledges.
- auto-biographies,
- potboiler,
- non-fiction,
- folktales,
- potboilers,
- serials,
- folktale,
- conti,
- nonfictions,
- auto biographies,
- in formations,
- non-fictions,
- re-cord,
- Conte,
- long short it,
- in-formation,
- news item,
- re-cords,
- re cord,
- auto-biography,
- news items,
- long and short it,
- epic,
- in formation,
- re cords,
- long and short of it,
- auto biography,
- memoir,
- non fictions,
- long short of it,
- non fiction,
- in-formations.
Other synonyms:
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- masque,
- detective,
- life history,
- life story,
- horror story,
- the first person,
- personify,
- faction,
- two-hander,
- fantasy,
- trope,
- screenplay,
- dramatic irony,
- mystery play,
- bathos,
- thriller,
- tragicomedy,
- farce,
- fanfic,
- figure of speech,
- ghost story,
- melodrama,
- urban myth,
- prequel,
- Deus Ex Machina,
- subplot,
- writer's block,
- poetic license,
- black comedy,
- comedy,
- fairy tale,
- sequel,
- imagery,
- tragedy,
- tall tale,
- cock-and-bull story,
- folk tale,
- trilogy,
- stream of consciousness,
- anthropomorphic,
- romp,
- tearjerker,
- horror,
- pantomime,
- oral history,
- nonfiction,
- parody,
- interior monologue,
- passion play.
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- tableau,
- full-length.
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- HIT.
- inscribe,
- home run,
- nonsensicality,
- secret,
- project,
- child's play,
- bollix up,
- mimic,
- berth,
- form,
- continuation,
- compute,
- blast,
- note,
- conform to,
- speech,
- verbal description,
- appearance,
- nought,
- travelog,
- opponent,
- designation,
- slice,
- taradiddle,
- heroic,
- motorcycle,
- fanfare,
- new,
- run around,
- mimer,
- bewilder,
- speculation,
- contract,
- instruction,
- diligence,
- deadening,
- police detective,
- limn,
- carrying into action,
- depict,
- cap,
- phantasy,
- woo,
- subject,
- info,
- uncut,
- point,
- secret writing,
- sketch,
- subscribe,
- reckon,
- adage,
- domestic ass,
- exterminate,
- significant,
- forcemeat,
- parallel of latitude,
- build,
- flummox,
- brandish,
- custom,
- count on,
- fret,
- hz,
- foeman,
- playscript,
- family relationship,
- deliberation,
- true lovers' knot,
- glimmer,
- fresh,
- stick,
- soft diet,
- dim,
- weapons system,
- breakup,
- manufacture,
- word-painting,
- drollery,
- psychotic belief,
- nominal,
- sexual intercourse,
- prank,
- installment,
- sign of the zodiac,
- patch,
- adjustment,
- motion-picture show,
- slow up,
- amor,
- tiresome,
- piece of music,
- comply,
- tragical,
- cry,
- counterpoint,
- connecter,
- indicate,
- firebrand,
- embellish,
- perspicuousness,
- empty words,
- world,
- application program,
- prompting,
- set phrase,
- demo,
- accompany,
- playing period,
- null,
- musical genre,
- court,
- muff,
- conjuration,
- musical theater,
- caper,
- shape,
- talks,
- gimmick,
- double birdie,
- indirect expression,
- intercourse,
- scar,
- line of latitude,
- repulsion,
- pean,
- teat,
- deduction,
- series,
- carry out,
- fly the coop,
- specialty,
- charge,
- periphrastic,
- solicit,
- preindication,
- traditional knowledge,
- model,
- musical style,
- fig,
- westerly,
- fictional character,
- blowout,
- latin,
- quality,
- give,
- be,
- give voice,
- refreshing,
- evidence,
- display,
- base,
- enter,
- grade,
- shew,
- rival,
- connective,
- surmisal,
- stir,
- rhythm,
- usher,
- conditional relation,
- meter,
- lift out,
- scramble,
- magnification,
- steer,
- relic,
- bring,
- trend,
- phrasing,
- bunk bed,
- dumbfound,
- inter-group communication,
- send-up,
- motorbike,
- motif,
- slogan,
- sag,
- fictionalization,
- caption,
- melodic,
- melodic theme,
- nonliteral,
- gambling,
- pin,
- exclusive,
- typecast,
- disport,
- round,
- pock,
- eulogy,
- autobiographic,
- deception,
- easy lay,
- mug,
- study,
- typewrite,
- bushed,
- reproduction,
- line of gab,
- connector,
- pertain,
- cypher,
- crash,
- innovation,
- slowly,
- beatnik,
- scoopful,
- bicycle,
- mash,
- mystify,
- heave,
- invoice,
- allude,
- epical,
- risky venture,
- skin senses,
- waft,
- distinguish,
- chassis,
- encomium,
- whacker,
- battle cry,
- see,
- resourcefulness,
- flub,
- demonstrate,
- mansion,
- encrypt,
- behind,
- small-arm,
- notice,
- relation back,
- distort,
- pocket,
- chat up,
- romance language,
- nobody,
- risk,
- dividing line,
- illation,
- label,
- turn of expression,
- fashion,
- opus,
- humanlike,
- educational activity,
- smasher,
- vocalisation,
- beat out,
- diddle,
- finger plate,
- mental image,
- movie,
- frivolity,
- lineament,
- potpourri,
- flair,
- concern,
- tag,
- install,
- spoon food,
- conjecture,
- snack,
- foreshadowing,
- strike off,
- mammilla,
- photograph,
- expand,
- crush,
- linkup,
- confidential information,
- pedal,
- gothic architecture,
- deutsche mark,
- flesh,
- outfox,
- trademark,
- differentiation,
- self-love,
- scripture,
- print,
- cadence,
- tread,
- bod,
- tableau vivant,
- fictionalisation,
- phraseology,
- vox,
- soot,
- sport,
- consecutive,
- true lover's knot,
- wearisome,
- grievous bodily harm,
- come to,
- footstep,
- newsworthiness,
- interval,
- coitus,
- personation,
- write up,
- trade name,
- bash,
- satirize,
- cycles/second,
- signalize,
- holy scripture,
- detachment,
- perplex,
- mental imagery,
- song and dance,
- opposite number,
- squab,
- bollocks up,
- brandmark,
- gull,
- countersign,
- nipple,
- medieval,
- role,
- take to,
- revulsion,
- theatrical,
- decoration,
- shoo-in,
- chump,
- inkling,
- formulate,
- overreach,
- rule book,
- cyber-terrorist,
- express,
- cross,
- proportionality,
- grandiloquence,
- practical application,
- bollix,
- firearm,
- magniloquence,
- mess up,
- tie in,
- gestural,
- pinch,
- criminal record,
- plant,
- patsy,
- coquette,
- mockery,
- body,
- coating,
- persona,
- ornamentation,
- put down,
- bite,
- augury,
- zip,
- flap,
- premise,
- tape,
- show up,
- public presentation,
- tint,
- bungle,
- lyric,
- pulse,
- superstitious notion,
- jest,
- tick off,
- escape,
- quiver,
- stuff,
- thrum,
- representative,
- render,
- foe,
- suffocate,
- rest,
- joining,
- cosmos,
- survey,
- legal separation,
- medley,
- tucker,
- conflict,
- walkaway,
- flagstone,
- funniness,
- clowning,
- verbiage,
- head rhyme,
- escapade,
- codification,
- encounter,
- liken,
- manifestation,
- grapheme,
- signboard,
- good book,
- feed bunk,
- promise,
- imaging,
- mediaeval,
- topic,
- tactile sensation,
- palaver,
- in series,
- decorate,
- tempo,
- signification,
- pit,
- radical,
- slacken,
- nonplus,
- work,
- disaster,
- nomenclature,
- trick,
- copulation,
- reference,
- calamity,
- nonparallel,
- substance,
- sluggish,
- tedious,
- effrontery,
- wave,
- associate,
- existence,
- target,
- premiss,
- picture show,
- institute,
- gaming,
- lay,
- importation,
- stick to,
- scoop out,
- hypothesis,
- lark about,
- flick,
- opera house,
- take to the woods,
- phonograph record,
- execution,
- locution,
- given,
- gamble,
- circumvent,
- news show,
- shade,
- anthropomorphous,
- cutaneous senses,
- outsmart,
- excogitation,
- ticktack,
- make,
- telling,
- ground,
- knock,
- scutcheon,
- catchword,
- peak,
- have,
- signature,
- calculate,
- jot,
- script,
- arcadian,
- nock,
- soft touch,
- stake,
- trifle,
- liquid ecstasy,
- sequential,
- delivery,
- ball up,
- lam,
- post,
- written report,
- denounce,
- number,
- read,
- theatrical role,
- tinct,
- linear,
- game,
- face,
- meiosis,
- disagreement,
- gum anime,
- reach,
- feature of speech,
- unite,
- ambage,
- best,
- plot of land,
- saint mark,
- epos,
- resistance,
- news report,
- bid,
- tack,
- mawkishness,
- fiber,
- impersonate,
- characterisation,
- spoil,
- secret plan,
- fantasize,
- period of play,
- tactual sensation,
- parole,
- abide by,
- lampblack,
- anatomy,
- adorn,
- looseness,
- record book,
- kinship,
- manoeuvre,
- voice communication,
- institution,
- surmise,
- fuck up,
- fictitious character,
- ribbon,
- boast,
- fool,
- scoop shovel,
- tell,
- tarradiddle,
- love affair,
- free rein,
- opposite,
- muzzle,
- mental synthesis,
- functioning,
- bumble,
- relate,
- souvenir,
- foul up,
- wager,
- pregnant,
- significance,
- put through,
- vis-a-vis,
- recognition,
- dull,
- bunkum,
- business relationship,
- news program,
- ambagious,
- exhaust,
- dramatic play,
- analog,
- slack,
- mien,
- scoop up,
- keep an eye on,
- jape,
- nibble,
- botch up,
- chance,
- roleplay,
- instance,
- yard,
- partake,
- linguistic process,
- measure,
- investigator,
- stem,
- case,
- recall,
- touch modality,
- estimate,
- hoyden,
- rate,
- dialect,
- scene,
- range,
- operation,
- selective information,
- phrasal idiom,
- agency,
- alikeness,
- ideograph,
- diagram,
- skylark,
- partial,
- musical rhythm,
- formula,
- come,
- floor,
- track record,
- musical phrase,
- dead,
- iris,
- undertide,
- pose,
- laying claim,
- implement,
- equate,
- plot of ground,
- epic poem,
- answer for,
- earthenware jar,
- recollection,
- deterrent example,
- tokenish,
- ticktock,
- pursue,
- recite,
- mask,
- magic trick,
- received,
- heraldic bearing,
- forecast,
- liaison,
- refinement,
- touch on,
- playact,
- cycle per second,
- feature film,
- pictorial matter,
- affect,
- heyday,
- human body,
- stride,
- recreate,
- physique,
- conjuring trick,
- duplicate,
- pasquinade,
- portrayal,
- register,
- mummer,
- pedagogy,
- score,
- watching,
- narrate,
- metaphoric,
- sexual relation,
- sequent,
- prosper,
- postdate,
- reputation,
- enactment,
- wash up,
- root,
- melodious,
- glimmering,
- sword,
- swag,
- built in bed,
- specialness,
- grace,
- showdown,
- trust,
- buncombe,
- match,
- reading,
- vocalise,
- oscillation,
- wording,
- moving-picture show,
- lover's knot,
- precept,
- tomboy,
- gospel according to mark,
- gloss,
- louse up,
- all in,
- scarper,
- equivalence,
- parlance,
- fly high,
- maneuver,
- reflection,
- flush,
- approximation,
- dispute,
- cataclysm,
- dash,
- encipher,
- ease up,
- ruin,
- dumb show,
- internal representation,
- departure,
- retard,
- drum,
- novelette,
- zero,
- universe,
- entropy,
- object lesson,
- cavort,
- personal manner,
- walloper,
- brand name,
- head game,
- musical composition,
- masquerade,
- variance,
- delegacy,
- bang,
- efflorescence,
- computer code,
- prosiness,
- leger,
- come after,
- check,
- set up,
- present,
- empty talk,
- effigy,
- presumptuousness,
- human relationship,
- writing style,
- beat up,
- colligate,
- paper,
- pic,
- lying,
- wreak,
- repugnance,
- oral communication,
- musical comedy,
- fantasise,
- monetary standard,
- breath,
- nada,
- byword,
- speech communication,
- color,
- dasheen,
- creative activity,
- farce comedy,
- paradigm,
- periphrasis,
- differentiate,
- line,
- follow through,
- covering,
- sect,
- strike,
- plot line,
- colour,
- get,
- video,
- importee,
- retch,
- outflank,
- commemorate,
- cocoyam,
- quip,
- nonfictional prose,
- caustic remark,
- correlational statistics,
- embody,
- origination,
- plat,
- beginning rhyme,
- initial rhyme,
- good example,
- found,
- blow,
- pulsate,
- ghost,
- punctuate,
- slow down,
- feature article,
- ledger,
- amusement,
- wheel,
- nexus,
- public figure,
- mishandle,
- wind,
- proposition,
- comportment,
- personate,
- steel,
- testify,
- lovers' knot,
- grammatical construction,
- sequence,
- occasional,
- impression,
- tip,
- patter,
- exemplar,
- carriage,
- design,
- mode,
- smash hit,
- watch,
- metre,
- mental representation,
- interpreter,
- tick,
- touch sensation,
- malaprop,
- touchstone,
- idyll,
- verbal expression,
- moment,
- discrepancy,
- item,
- contact,
- signal,
- artistic style,
- romanticism,
- reflexion,
- bloom,
- adopt,
- perspicuity,
- columba,
- successive,
- sexual congress,
- connect,
- head for the hills,
- put together,
- pound,
- marker,
- volume,
- feeling,
- join,
- marque,
- muck up,
- nail,
- examination,
- mensuration,
- affiliation,
- heroic tale,
- man,
- boring,
- observance,
- bear witness,
- vocalize,
- outwit,
- moving picture,
- catastrophe,
- baffle,
- gravel,
- tec,
- blazonry,
- dally,
- lark,
- correlation coefficient,
- difference of opinion,
- cps,
- demarcation,
- appraisal,
- logical implication,
- tidings,
- bollocks,
- rot,
- frisk,
- tie,
- partial tone,
- book of account,
- vanity,
- radio link,
- remainder,
- follow out,
- top,
- mental picture,
- stupefy,
- relative,
- clue,
- seriocomedy,
- swordplay,
- look,
- impact,
- screw up,
- vex,
- nonentity,
- bucolic,
- foundation,
- bear upon,
- literary genre,
- instal,
- turn tail,
- twinned,
- panegyric,
- signaling,
- equal,
- outdo,
- look-alike,
- venture,
- taro root,
- constitute,
- stigmatise,
- frame,
- simulacrum,
- soap,
- linguistic communication,
- while,
- masthead,
- criterion,
- boom,
- camarilla,
- thread,
- comparative,
- strangle,
- keepsake,
- shimmer,
- serial publication,
- scat,
- way,
- homeliness,
- articulate,
- word of god,
- yoke,
- dangerous undertaking,
- keep abreast,
- material body,
- resource,
- posture,
- sound,
- recitation,
- take after,
- education,
- prefiguration,
- sign on,
- pantomimist,
- strike out,
- designate,
- takeoff,
- pantomimer,
- saw,
- foretoken,
- character reference,
- trump,
- stigmatize,
- panache,
- evince,
- crisscross,
- zilch,
- secernment,
- house,
- data,
- cryptograph,
- zippo,
- favouritism,
- dimension,
- take chances,
- antic,
- ho-hum,
- initiation,
- cover,
- polarity,
- mite,
- bless,
- tie-up,
- dramatic event,
- fiddle,
- aspect,
- signed,
- nicety,
- saying,
- twist,
- delineation,
- visualize,
- photo,
- house painting,
- deutschmark,
- fibre,
- stain,
- philander,
- disk,
- represent,
- balance,
- gait,
- surveil,
- run a risk,
- aught,
- phonation,
- trace,
- lie in,
- spot,
- exhibit,
- tack together,
- smash up,
- play along,
- tit,
- espouse,
- mesmerism,
- sword lily,
- spell,
- signal flag,
- eclipsis,
- imaginativeness,
- observe,
- spokesperson,
- watch over,
- tardily,
- megahit,
- assembly,
- subsequence,
- conception,
- secret code,
- coquet,
- root word,
- weaponry,
- double,
- lay down,
- take on,
- easy,
- lie down,
- theatrical performance,
- negotiation,
- physical body,
- visualise,
- scratch,
- rallying cry,
- reconciliation,
- law of similarity,
- accounting,
- scrape,
- junto,
- vocalization,
- vogue,
- dense,
- overstatement,
- co-ordinated,
- smashingly,
- explanation,
- musical theme,
- fondness,
- carnal knowledge,
- star sign,
- shell,
- guess,
- supposal,
- digit,
- data link,
- goop,
- consequence,
- art object,
- gambol,
- masquerade party,
- vision,
- commandment,
- heartbeat,
- carrying out,
- fun,
- founding,
- fairytale,
- turn,
- soma,
- runaway,
- check off,
- soupcon,
- work out,
- direct contrast,
- mamilla,
- incarnation,
- run away,
- legerdemain,
- assemble,
- max,
- exercise,
- folk song,
- coordinated,
- flirt,
- folksong,
- music genre,
- structure,
- level,
- sense of touch,
- advisement,
- summit,
- eccentric,
- ruffle,
- graph,
- pulsation,
- set,
- epitome,
- proffer,
- dwell,
- hertz,
- formulation,
- fall guy,
- laurel wreath,
- tucker out,
- thump,
- classical,
- clause,
- title,
- measurement,
- decelerate,
- magic,
- holy writ,
- intension,
- falsity,
- bike,
- falsification,
- ornateness,
- range of a function,
- prototype,
- adjoin,
- hold,
- bankrupt,
- sequestration,
- coefficient of correlation,
- motto,
- refer,
- doctrine of analogy,
- take a chance,
- hightail it,
- subtlety,
- choke,
- amaze,
- hazard,
- medal,
- thrive,
- report card,
- botch,
- stock,
- travesty,
- pablum,
- step,
- account statement,
- accent,
- 0,
- face-off,
- sign up,
- composition,
- introduction,
- larger-than-life,
- pennon,
- droop,
- replication,
- collimate,
- word,
- run,
- cross off,
- touching,
- munition,
- describe,
- quran,
- hallucination,
- guff,
- enemy,
- meet,
- macrocosm,
- divergency,
- bobble,
- exposure,
- life,
- figural,
- diction,
- facial expression,
- building,
- lead,
- take up,
- butterfly,
- goose egg,
- histrionics,
- satirise,
- speciality,
- film,
- break,
- bull's eye,
- bell ringer,
- articulation,
- symmetry,
- enigma,
- heroic poem,
- frippery,
- cabal,
- precondition,
- prevarication,
- bible,
- palm,
- bet,
- sucker,
- sign-language,
- war cry,
- blade,
- entailment,
- jocularity,
- name,
- nonsense,
- trounce,
- ease off,
- koran,
- travel along,
- succeed,
- tease,
- oppositeness,
- eminence,
- go for,
- bill,
- deviation,
- intelligence,
- break away,
- launch,
- phylogenetic relation,
- act,
- desire,
- disparateness,
- nil,
- stigma,
- epanaphora,
- blazon,
- marking,
- latitude,
- lotion,
- planetary house,
- blossom,
- partiality,
- keep up,
- beautify,
- motion picture,
- heading,
- ikon,
- correlativity,
- speck,
- mark off,
- correspondence,
- insinuation,
- have to do with,
- taro,
- sendup,
- crown,
- link up,
- vanquish,
- depiction,
- laugh,
- account book,
- twin,
- logograph,
- write in code,
- implements of war,
- make for,
- bear on,
- envision,
- meaninglessness,
- characteristic,
- smut,
- smash-up,
- nothing,
- ratify,
- aim,
- coition,
- objet d'art,
- circumlocutory,
- jeopardize,
- dumb,
- put-on,
- advert,
- carbon black,
- pattern,
- belt,
- pastorale,
- grandiosity,
- puzzle,
- fleur-de-lis,
- version,
- stylus,
- tie-in,
- act as,
- western sandwich,
- connectedness,
- frolic,
- elan,
- prove,
- fumble,
- graphic symbol,
- work over,
- obtuse,
- suggest,
- laugher,
- disturb,
- platter,
- hypnotism,
- duologue,
- part,
- extend to,
- fall out,
- spoken language,
- nix,
- instauration,
- august 15,
- favoritism,
- words,
- preeminence,
- streamer,
- overhead,
- presence,
- chemical attraction,
- disc,
- signalise,
- cross out,
- closed book,
- go through with,
- instalment,
- career,
- naught,
- slacken off,
- idea,
- spoken communication,
- phonograph recording,
- stick with,
- consist,
- reserve,
- toy,
- prime,
- hot air,
- terminology,
- peacenik,
- pick,
- peculiarity,
- sex act,
- bagatelle,
- bit,
- bang up,
- rollick.
Antonyms for Allegory:
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n.
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indirect representation, storytelling
non-fiction, truth.
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indirect representation, storytelling
Homophones for Allegory:
Hypernym for Allegory:
n.
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communication
hakenkreuz, badge, fasces, scarlet letter, Aesop's Fables, elephant, Solomon's seal, paschal lamb, hammer and sickle, dove, swastika, Shield of David, Magen David, red flag, eagle, medallion, donkey, spread eagle, maple-leaf, Mogen David, ensign, national flag, cupid, Agnus Dei, Star Of David.
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communication
Hyponym for Allegory:
n.
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communication
style, symbol, expressive style, symbolisation, story, symbolization, symbolic representation.
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communication