Common Similes and Striking Comparisons

Common Similes and Striking Comparisons can make your speech and writing poetic. If you have the ability to find similarity in quite dissimilar things, you may easily become a great poet. Poetry always depends on similes and metaphors to give wings to imagination. Even if you are not a poet, the use of similes and comparisons will surely add to the beauty and charm of your speech and writing. But these devices, just like idioms, are to be used once in a while. Otherwise your English may appear bombastic and clumsy.

Here is a list of the most common similes in English.

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Adjective	Comparison
active	As active as quicksilver
afraid	As afraid as a grasshopper
ageless	As ageless as the sun
agile	As agile as a cat, as a monkey
alike	As alike as two beans, as two peas
ambitious	As ambitious as the devil, as Lady Macbeth
arid	As arid as the sands of the Sahara
bald	As bald as a badger, as a billiard ball, as a coot, as an egg
bashful	As bashful as a schoolgirl
beautiful	As beautiful as a rainbow, as the sunset
big	As big as an elephant, as a whale
bitter	As bitter as gall, as wormwood
black	As black as coal, as a crow, as ebony, as ink, as jet, as midnight, as pitch, as a raven, as soot, as thunder
blind	As blind as a bat, as a beetle, as a mole
blithe	As blithe as a bee, as a butterfly, as a lark, as May
blue	As blue as indigo, as the sky
blunt	As blunt as the back of a knife
bold	As bold as brass, as lion
boundless	As boundless as the ocean
bounteous	As bounteous as nature

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