metamorphic
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- adjective
- /ˌmɛtəˈmɔrfɪk/
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metamórfico
- Lamb's assertion keys into the metamorphic properties of sympathy and its reliance on the imagination while realizing the instrumental role that consciousness plays in acts of sympathetic exchange.
- metamorphic imagery
Examples
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In Miller's theory of Ovid, the metamorphic structuring of the text is duplicated and motivated by the portrayed series of metamorphoses in the stories.
Academic text (1996) -
In this sense, translation envisions a past that is metamorphic and, and mobile and durable.
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In other words, in the metamorphic state, a creature is at once itself and something else.
Academic text (1996) -
Layer by layer, you get closer to the hard pebble that is your metamorphic heart, pressure-warped and heat-fused.
Fiction book (1996) -
Miller is interested in both the structure of Ovid's work, the concatenation between any one story and those that come before and after, and the metamorphic processes described in the text.
Academic text (1996) -
And Needless to say, Professor Hancock's innumerable musical avatars continue this metamorphic tradition.
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In the speech cited above, Puck is credited with the Protean, metamorphic capacity that Bottom claims during the mechanicals' rehearsal when he urges that he himself play both parts, lover and tyrant.
Academic text (1998) -
The caterpillar undergoes a metamorphic change to become a butterfly.
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Many frogs have a metamorphic life cycle that includes both aquatic and terrestrial stages.
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During the metamorphic phase, the insect transforms completely, showcasing its new form.
Synonyms
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Relating to a large change in body shape during an animal's life, like a caterpillar becoming a butterfly
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Relating to a change from one form or state to another
An insect that changes body form from caterpillar to adult, like a butterfly
A rock changed by heat and pressure deep inside the Earth
Antonyms
Compounds
How Evasive
Surface Forms
Morphology
metamorphic = metamorph (semi-transparent) = meta + morph + ic
The adjectival suffix '-ic' on 'metamorph' is structurally clear, but the general notion of change is only partly transparent to an average learner.
Etymology
Metamorphic comes from the parts meta- meaning 'change' and morph meaning 'shape'. So something described as metamorphic is going through a big change of form, like a caterpillar turning into a butterfly.