answer me this, interweb peoples!

[daf]

why is there no adjective form of simile?

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[suicideally.livejournal.com]

Similar?

[crazymeandave.livejournal.com]

nope.

i looked in the dictionary and everything... admittedly it was not a particularly bling one.

and it said whilst you can have a "metaphoric" or "metaphorical" something or other, you can't decline simile in the same fashion. :/

[nickcactus.livejournal.com]

you will just have to say 'similie-like', ironically.

[too-many-flies.livejournal.com]

when would you want to use it? a simile is a straightforward comparison and is therefore obvious. with a metaphor you are saying something is something, when it isn't it's a metaphor, so you might want to use 'metaphorically' to describe the comparison


balls, ignore me, i know what i mean..

[crazymeandave.livejournal.com]

it came up when i wanted to describe the subject of a simile.

were it a metaphor, i could have said "the metaphorical...." but not for a simile.

this strikes me as unfair

[too-many-flies.livejournal.com]

hmm fair enough. maybe a letter to The Times is required

[crazymeandave.livejournal.com]

do you think that'll rectify the situation?

[too-many-flies.livejournal.com]

are you suggesting it won't?

man i live in a deluded world