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Musicmystery -> RE: Grope Em by the pussy is Time magazine's Person of the Year (12/7/2016 12:21:41 PM)
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met·a·phor
ˈmedəˌfôr,ˈmedəˌfər/
noun
noun: metaphor; plural noun: metaphors
a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.
"“I had fallen through a trapdoor of depression,” said Mark, who was fond of theatrical metaphors"
synonyms: figure of speech, image, trope, analogy, comparison, symbol, word painting/picture
"the profusion of metaphors in her everyday speech has gotten pretty tiresome"
a thing regarded as representative or symbolic of something else, especially something abstract.
"the amounts of money being lost by the company were enough to make it a metaphor for an industry that was teetering"
Origin
late 15th century: from French métaphore, via Latin from Greek metaphora, from metapherein ‘to transfer.’
stu·pid
ˈst(y)o͞opəd/
adjective
adjective: stupid; comparative adjective: stupider; superlative adjective: stupidest
1.
lacking intelligence or common sense.
"I was stupid enough to think she was perfect"
synonyms: unintelligent, ignorant, dense, foolish, dull-witted, slow, simpleminded, vacuous, vapid, idiotic, imbecilic, imbecile, obtuse, doltish; More
informalthick, dim, dimwitted, slow-witted, dumb, dopey, dozy, moronic, cretinous, pea-brained, halfwitted, soft in the head, brain-dead, boneheaded, thickheaded, wooden-headed, muttonheaded, daft
"they're rather stupid"
foolish, silly, unintelligent, idiotic, scatterbrained, nonsensical, senseless, harebrained, unthinking, ill-advised, ill-considered, unwise, injudicious;
inane, absurd, ludicrous, ridiculous, laughable, risible, fatuous, asinine, mad, insane, lunatic;
informalcrazy, dopey, cracked, half-baked, dimwitted, cockeyed, lamebrained, nutty, batty, cuckoo, loony, loopy
"that was a really stupid thing to do"
antonyms: intelligent, sensible
dazed and unable to think clearly.
"apprehension was numbing her brain and making her stupid"
synonyms: into a stupor, into a daze, into oblivion; More
stupefied, dazed, unconscious
"he drank himself stupid"
antonyms: alert
informal
used to express exasperation or boredom.
"she told him to stop messing with his stupid painting"
nouninformal
noun: stupid; plural noun: stupids
1.
a stupid person (often used as a term of address).
"you're not a coward, stupid!"
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