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Definitions

Adjective

1. 1
   Of, relating to, or exhibiting synecdoche.; Using an inclusive term for something included, or vice versa; using the term for a part or component to mean the whole (as "hand" for "laborer") or vice versa (as "the court" for "the judge").
2. 2
   Of, relating to, or exhibiting synecdoche.; Of a whole: representing its components; of a part representing the whole.

Adjective

1. 1
   using the name of a part for that of the whole or the whole for the part; or the special for the general or the general for the special; or the material for the thing made of it wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms

figurativesynecdochalsynecdochicsynecdochicsynecdochic

Etymology

From synecdoche + -ical.

Related phrases

vice versa

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