176 synonyms found

Pronunciation:

[ fˈɪɡəɹ ɒv spˈiːt͡ʃ], [ fˈɪɡəɹ ɒv spˈiːt‍ʃ], [ f_ˈɪ_ɡ_ə_ɹ ɒ_v s_p_ˈiː_tʃ]

Similar words for figure of speech:

• allusion (noun)
• communication (noun)
• exaggeration (noun)
• other relevant words (noun)
• phrase (noun)
• tall talk (noun)
• turn of expression (noun)
• other synonyms
• other relevant words
• other relevant words (noun)

Hypernyms for figure of speech

Hyponyms for figure of speech

Synonyms for Figure of speech:

• n.

  •
  • aphorism,
  • metonymy,
  • irony,
  • parable,
  • synecdoche,
  • axiom,
  • satire,
  • apostrophe,
  • malapropism,
  • binomial,
  • comparison,
  • battle cry,
  • adumbration,
  • Hysteron Proteron,
  • onomatopoeia,
  • analogue,
  • epic simile,
  • parallel,
  • repetition,
  • sarcasm,
  • cheer,
  • allegory,
  • understatement,
  • Homeric simile,
  • personification,
  • paradox,
  • litotes,
  • euphuism,
  • cite,
  • citation,
  • oxymoron,
  • hyperbole.
  • allusion (noun)
  • figure speech,
  • in sinuation,
  • play words,
  • in sinuations,
  • casual remarks,
  • incidental mentions,
  • re mark,
  • de-notations,
  • de notation,
  • in-sinuations,
  • re-marks,
  • de-notation,
  • de notations,
  • in-sinuation,
  • re marks.
  • communication (noun)
  • figure of speech,
  • trope,
  • figure,
  • image.
  • exaggeration (noun)
  • overestimation,
  • exaltation,
  • overemphasises,
  • elaboration,
  • tall talk,
  • overemphasis,
  • romance,
  • tall story,
  • extravagance,
  • Hyperbolism,
  • hogwash.
  • Other relevant words: (noun)
  • remark,
  • exaggeration,
  • casual remark,
  • allusion,
  • Re-mark,
  • mention,
  • rhetorical device,
  • incidental mention,
  • imputation,
  • statement,
  • inference.
  • phrase (noun)
  • locution,
  • clause,
  • cliche,
  • epigram,
  • maxim,
  • expression,
  • phraseology,
  • catchphrase,
  • proverb,
  • phrase,
  • metaphor,
  • mannerism,
  • adage,
  • slogan,
  • terminology,
  • motto,
  • sentence,
  • Verbalism,
  • euphemism,
  • idiom,
  • paragraph.
  • tall talk (noun)
  • over-statements,
  • over statement,
  • over statements,
  • over-statement,
  • tall-talk.
  • turn of expression (noun)
  • communication that is not meant literally; stylistic device.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • simile.
  • Other relevant words:
  • range of a function,
  • imagery,
  • soundbite,
  • cliché,
  • alliteration,
  • fig.,
  • cliché-ridden.
  • Other relevant words (noun):
  • exclamation,
  • Antonomasia,
  • luxuriance,
  • prolepsis,
  • antistrophe,
  • anadiplosis,
  • device,
  • anacoluthon,
  • echoism,
  • antiphrasis,
  • climax,
  • turn of expression,
  • emphasis,
  • apophasis,
  • chiasmus,
  • floridness,
  • preterition,
  • ellipsis,
  • colors,
  • anaphora,
  • spoonerism,
  • Tropology,
  • ornamentation,
  • Aporia,
  • analogy,
  • periphrasis,
  • gemination,
  • frill,
  • parenthesis,
  • similitude,
  • inversion,
  • turn of phrase,
  • Floridity,
  • flourish,
  • lushness,
  • flower,
  • meiosis,
  • syllepsis,
  • conceit,
  • ornament,
  • aposiopesis,
  • catachresis,
  • symploce,
  • conversion,
  • circumlocution,
  • ecphonesis,
  • pleonasm,
  • manner of speaking,
  • elegant variation,
  • hypallage,
  • hyperbaton,
  • regression,
  • purple passage,
  • embellishment,
  • adornment,
  • embroidery,
  • paregmenon,
  • zeugma,
  • bathos,
  • way of speaking,
  • beauties,
  • rhetoric,
  • anastrophe,
  • Floweriness,
  • Asyndeton,
  • anticlimax,
  • proteron,
  • antithesis.

Hypernym for Figure of speech:

• n.

  • communication
    metaphor, personification, kenning, oxymoron, prosopopoeia, zeugma, conceit, hyperbole, irony, simile, synecdoche, exaggeration, metonymy.

Hyponym for Figure of speech:

• n.

  • communication
    rhetorical device.