catachrestic

variants or catachrestical

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for catachrestic
Adjective
  • By then, John had died, and a new Pope, Paul VI—the former Archbishop of Milan, Giovanni Battista Montini—had gone to Jerusalem, seeking symbolic expression of the new Catholic-Jewish amity.
    Paul Elie, The New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2025
  • Changing the terminology the committee uses is a symbolic move that reflects the support among many Republicans in Congress for recognizing Israeli sovereignty there.
    Barak Ravid, Axios, 26 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Chu’s film feels driven, too, by a specific youthful unrest emblematic of a wider generational crisis in modern Taiwan: Politics may not surface directly in this banquet of ear- and eye-candy, but the filmmaker’s heady, dreamy vision isn’t wholly estranged from the here and now.
    Guy Lodge, Variety, 26 Feb. 2025
  • But behind the arthritic movements was the same fierceness emblematic of Paquita.
    Alex Zaragoza, Los Angeles Times, 21 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • The other medieval link comes from the ‘allegorical’ aspect of the jewelry, as the illustrations in the pieces tell a story across the entire collection.
    Kyle Roderick, Forbes, 6 Mar. 2025
  • Like its poetic English-language title, the allegorical tale can be a little confusing to interpret at times, but looks striking in its line-free illustrative style.
    Peter Debruge, Variety, 2 Mar. 2025
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“Catachrestic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/catachrestic. Accessed 11 Mar. 2025.

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