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Showing words for TROPOLOGY using the English dictionary

9 Letter Words for Tropology

tropology

8 Letter Words for Tropology

optology, protolog, topology

7 Letter Words for Tropology

orology, otology, tropoyl

6 Letter Words for Tropology

gloopy, grooly, grooty, oology, oporto, poorly, portly, protyl, rotolo, trooly, tropyl

5 Letter Words for Tropology

gloop, glory, gooly, goopy, groop, groot, grypt, loopy, loory, lotor, ology, orlop, pooly, poort, pooty, porgo, porgy, porto, porty, potoo, proto, roopy, rooty, topog, troop, tyrol

4 Letter Words for Tropology

glop, glor, gloy, golp, gool, goop, goor, gorp, gory, goto, grot, gyro, logo, logy, loop, loor, loot, loro, lory, loto, oory, orgy, orlo, orly, plot, ploy, pogo, pogy, polo, polt, poly, pool, poor, poot, port, pory, prog, proo, pyot, pyro, rool, roop, root, ropy, rotl, roto, royt, ryot, togo, tool, toop, topo, toro, toyo, trog, trop, troy, tryp, typo, tyro, yoop

3 Letter Words for Tropology

glt, gol, goo, gop, gor, got, goy, gro, gry, gyp, log, loo, lop, lor, lot, loy, ltr, olp, oop, oor, oot, opt, org, orl, ort, ory, oto, ply, pol, poo, por, pot, poy, pro, pry, ptg, pty, pyr, rly, rog, roo, rot, rpt, tlo, tlr, tog, tol, too, top, tor, toy, trp, try, tyg, typ, tyr, ygo, yor, yot

Definitions for Tropology

[1] the use of figurative language in speech or writing.
[2] a treatise on figures of speech or tropes.
[3] the use of a Scriptural text so as to give it a moral interpretation or significance apart from its direct meaning.
[4] rhetoric the use of figurative language in speech or writing
[5] Christian theol the educing of moral or figurative meanings from the Scriptures
[6] a treatise on tropes or figures of speech

Words related to Tropology

allegory, allusion, analogy, anticlimax, antithesis, bathos, comparison, conceit, device, euphemism, euphuism, exaggeration, expression, flourish, flower, hyperbole, image, imagery, irony, metaphor

Words nearby Tropology

tropicbird, tropine, tropism, tropo-, tropocollagen, tropology, tropomyosin, troponin, troponin i, tropopause, tropophilous

Origin of Tropology

1510–20; < Late Latin tropologia < Greek tropología. See trope, -o-, -logy

Other words from Tropology

trop·o·log·ic [trop-uh -loj -ik, troh-puh -] /ˌtrɒp əˈlɒdʒ ɪk, ˌtroʊ pə-/ , trop·o·log·i·cal , adjective
trop·o·log·i·cal·ly , adverb

Word origin for Tropology

C16: via Late Latin from Greek tropalogia ; see trope , -logy

Synonyms for Tropology

adumbration, allegory, alliteration, allusion, analogue, analogy, anaphora, anticlimax, antistrophe, antithesis, aposiopesis, apostrophe, asyndeton, bathos, communication that is not meant literally; stylistic device, comparison, conceit, device, echoism, ellipsis, euphemism, euphuism, exaggeration, expression, flourish, flower, hyperbole, image, imagery, irony, litotes, malapropism, manner of speaking, metaphor, metonymy, onomatopoeia, ornament, oxymoron, parable, paradox, parallel, personification, proteron, rhetoric, sarcasm, satire, simile, synecdoche, trope, turn of phrase, understatement, way of speaking