Word Meanings - TRANSLATIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

tropical; figurative; as, a translative sense. Puttenham.

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• SENSE
  A faculty, possessed by animals, of perceiving external objects by means of impressions made upon certain organs (sensory or sense organs) of the body, or of perceiving changes in the condition of the body; as, the senses of sight, smell, hearing,
• TROPICALLY
  In a tropical manner; figuratively; metaphorically.
• TRANSLATIVE
  tropical; figurative; as, a translative sense. Puttenham.
• SENSEFUL
  Full of sense, meaning, or reason; reasonable; judicious. "Senseful speech." Spenser. "Men, otherwise senseful and ingenious." Norris.
• TROPICAL
  Rhetorically changed from its exact original sense; being of the nature of a trope; figurative; metaphorical. Jer. Taylor. The foundation of all parables is some analogy or similitude between the tropical or allusive part of the parable and the
• SENSELESS
  Destitute of, deficient in, or contrary to, sense; without sensibility or feeling; unconscious; stupid; foolish; unwise; unreasonable. You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things. Shak. The ears are senseless that should give us hearing.
• FIGURATIVE
  1. Representing by a figure, or by resemblance; typical; representative. This, they will say, was figurative, and served, by God's appointment, but for a time, to shadow out the true glory of a more divine sanctity. Hooker. 2. Used in a sense that
• INSENSE
  To make to understand; to instruct. Halliwell.
• NONSENSE
  1. That which is not sense, or has no sense; words, or language, which have no meaning, or which convey no intelligible ideas; absurdity. 2. Trifles; things of no importance. Nonsense verses, lines made by taking any words which occur,
• PREFIGURATIVE
  Showing by prefiguration. "The prefigurative atonement." Bp. Horne.
• INTERTROPICAL
  Situated between or within the tropics. J. Morse.
• EXTRATROPICAL
  Beyond or outside of the tropics. Whewell.
• INTRATROPICAL
  Within the tropics.
• SUBTROPICAL
  Nearly tropical.
• COMMON SENSE
  See SENSE
• UNSENSED
  Wanting a distinct meaning; having no certain signification. Puller.
• ULTRATROPICAL
  Situated beyond, or outside of, the tropics; extratropical; also, having an excessively tropical temperature; warmer than the tropics.
• ALLOTROPIC; ALLOTROPICAL
  Of or pertaining to allotropism. -- Al`lo*trop"ic*al*ly, adv. Allotropic state, the several conditions which occur in a case of allotropism.
• NEOTROPICAL
  Belonging to, or designating, a region of the earth's surface which comprises most of South America, the Antilles, and tropical North America.