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What does metaphoric mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word metaphoric? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Like a metaphor.
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It is the metaphoric link between the melodramatic and the politic that America does so well yet, inevitably, gets so wrong.
As Cross puts it, modern humans can transfer insights from one domain to another, often to a domain that is metaphoric or symbolic.
It's not a lack of editorial courage but, one is fairly certain, long experience with the architects with purple faces and metaphoric horsewhips.
Walcott's metaphoric take on epic is so powerfully originative as to put the whole genre in a new light.
The combination of fossils and gouged marks created a metaphoric interplay between fossilized creatures and shelled victims.
The collage elements intricately play off the metaphoric conceits or evocative turns of phrase of the elaborately lettered texts.

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