figurative

Adjective
  1. (used of the meanings of words or text) not literal;
    Using figures of speech (synset 301422022)
    "figurative language"
    also: rhetorical - given to rhetoric, emphasizing style at the expense of thought
    similar to:
    • analogical - expressing, composed of, or based on an analogy
    • extended - beyond the literal or primary sense
    • metaphoric, metaphorical - expressing one thing in terms normally denoting another
    • metonymic, metonymical - using the name of one thing for that of another with which it is closely associated
    • poetic - characterized by romantic imagery
    • synecdochic, synecdochical - using the name of a part for that of the whole or the whole for the part; or the special for the general or the general for the special; or the material for the thing made of it
    • tropical - characterized by or of the nature of a trope or tropes; changed from its literal sense
    same as: nonliteral
  2. Consisting of or forming human or animal figures (synset 301986669)
    "a figural design"; "the figurative art of the humanistic tradition"
    similar to: representational - (used especially of art) depicting objects, figures,or scenes as seen
    same as: figural

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