💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Subtrope"
Found via reverse dictionary — words that share a conceptual meaning.
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| tropenoun | (art, literature) Something recurring across a genre or type of art or literature; a motif. |
| aftertypenoun | A type or figure which comes after or ensues another, often in semblance to or in imitation of them; a copy |
| subsubsensenoun | A subsense of a subsense. |
| subphenomenonnoun | A phenomenon which forms part of a larger phenomenon. |
| subconceptnoun | A secondary or subsidiary concept. |
| toposnoun | A literary theme or motif; a rhetorical convention or formula. |
| subalternnoun | (social sciences, literary theory) A member of a group that is socially, politically and geographically outside of the hegemonic power structure of the colony and of the colonial homeland. |
| subcausenoun | A cause forming part of a larger cause. |
| autohyponymnoun | A word that is a hyponym of itself, displaying vertical polysemy via a stricter subsense whose denotation is entirely a subset of a broader sense. |
| metonymnoun | (grammar) A word that names an object from a single characteristic of it or of a closely related object; a word used in metonymy. |
| subtopicnoun | A subject that forms part of a topic. |
| bywordnoun | A proverb or proverbial expression, common saying; a frequently used word or phrase. |
| likeverb | To enjoy, be pleased by; favor; be in favor of. |
| near-synonymnoun | (linguistics) Synonym of parasynonym. |
| sidequelnoun | A type of sequel which portrays events that occur at the same time as the original work, but with different characters in a different setting |
| metonymic | Of, or relating to, a word or phrase that names an object from a single characteristic of it or of a closely related object. |
| subobjectnoun | An object that is part of another object. |
| symboloidnoun | Something that resembles a symbol in some way. |
| hypernymnoun | (semantics) A superordinate word or phrase; a term whose referents form a set which includes as a subset the referents of a subordinate term—as, for example, insect (being a hypernym) for ant. |
| antimotifnoun | (genetics) A pattern, in a nucleotide or amino-acid sequence, that appears less often than chance would predict and is conjectured to have biological significance. |
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