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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"urative\, 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"uratively}, adv. -- {Fig"urativeness}, n.

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

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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