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Figurative

Figurative Meaning & Definition
Figurative Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Figurative?

[adj] (used of the meanings of words or text) not literal; using figures of speech; "figurative language"
[adj] consisting of or forming human or animal figures; "a figural design"; "the figurative art of the humanistic tradition"- Herbert Read

Synonyms | Synonyms for Figurative: analogical | extended | figural | metaphoric | metaphorical | metonymic | metonymical | nonliteral | poetic | representational | synecdochic | synecdochical | tropical

Related Terms | Find terms related to Figurative: adorned | algorismic | algorithmic | aliquot | allegoric | allegorical | allusive | anagogic | apish | associational | befrilled | cardinal | colored | connotational | connotative | decimal | decorated | definable | delineatory | demonstrative | denominative | denotational | denotative | depictive | designative | diagnostic | differential | digital | echoic | embellished | emblematic | embodying | embroidered | even | evidential | exhibitive | exponential | expressive | extended | extensional | fancy | festooned | figural | figurate | figured | finite | florid | flowery | fractional | full of meaning | full of point | full of substance | graphic | identifying | ideographic | idiosyncratic | illustrational | illustrative | imaginary | imitative | impair | implicative | impossible | incarnating | indicating | indicative | indicatory | individual | infinite | integral | intelligible | intensional | interpretable | irrational | limning | logarithmic | logometric | lush | luxuriant | mannered | meaning | meaningful | meaty | metaphorical | mimetic | mimish | naming | negative | numeral | numerary | numerative | numeric | odd | onomatopoeic | ordinal | ornamented | ornate | overcharged | overloaded | pair | pathognomonic | peculiar | personifying | pictographic | pictorial | pithy | pointed | portraying | positive | possible | pregnant | prime | purple | radical | rational | readable | real | reciprocal | referential | representational | representative | representing | semantic | semiotic | sententious | signalizing | significant | significative | signifying | simulative | submultiple | substantial | suggestive | surd | symbolic | symbolistic | symbolizing | symbological | symptomatic | symptomatologic | transcendental | transferred | trolatitious | tropological | typical | typifying | vivid

See Also | rhetorical

Figurative In Webster's Dictionary

\Fig"ur*a*tive\, a. [L. figurativus: cf. F. figuratif. See {Figurative}.] 1. Representing by a figure, or by resemblance; typical; representative. This, they will say, was figurative, and served, by God's appointment, but for a time, to shadow out the true glory of a more divine sanctity. --Hooker. 2. Used in a sense that is tropical, as a metaphor; not literal; -- applied to words and expressions. 3. Abounding in figures of speech; flowery; florid; as, a highly figurative description. 4. Relating to the representation of form or figure by drawing, carving, etc. See {Figure}, n., 2. They belonged to a nation dedicated to the figurative arts, and they wrote for a public familiar with painted form. --J. A. Symonds. {Figurative} {counterpoint or descant}. See under {Figurate}. -- {Fig"ur*a*tive*ly}, adv. -- {Fig"ur*a*tive*ness}, n.

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