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tropical
adjective
Synonyms and Antonyms of TROPICAL
1
being near the equator <wanted to escape winter and visit some tropical location where freezing to death would not be a possibility>
Synonyms equatorial, tropical
Related Words semitropical (also semitropic), subtropical (also subtropic)
Near Antonyms temperate
Antonyms polar
2
expressing one thing in terms normally used for another <an author given to high-flown tropical phrasings and convoluted symbology>
Related Words Aesopian (also Aesopic), allegorical, emblematic (also emblematical), symbolic (also symbolical); catachrestic (or catachrestical), sylleptic; euphemistic; nonliteral, veritable
Near Antonyms literal; nonsymbolic
Antonyms nonfigurative, nonmetaphorical
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