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figurative

If a word has a figurative meaning, it is used as a metaphor, simile as opposed to literal.

figurative

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

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Topics figurative topics

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The figurative meaning is no longer in current use.
What do you prefer, abstract or figurative painting?

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No, it's just figurative.
It's figurative?
I told you: It's my only figurative work. The abstracts are at camp.
He's an authority in the field of figurative arts.
Music is the highest of the arts. It needs no reference to the figurative. or the corporeal.
And yet, if we tilt our figurative head to the side and squint just so, isn't he also just a little. cuddly?
Yes, but only in the figurative noun form or the adjective form. Heh?
It's figurative, doofus!
A figurative use of. expression.
And when a man of science speaks in such figurative terms one wonders exactly what he has in mind.
Farther describes actual distance, further is more figurative.
The return of figurative art or the New Baroque?
In the figurative sense.
You're arrogant. You have the sickness that elites have had - throughout history in their literal, and in some cases figurative, ivory towers.
I hope you're not in favour of the bloody new figurative school.
No, figurative.
Ha, your lot both in the literal and figurative sense of the word.
By the way, Picasso's blue period was figurative, and ended in 1904.
A figurative use of expression.
I'm more figurative.
No, I was just speaking in the figurative.
Coming back to the cross of the Zodiac, the figurative life of the Sun, this was not just an artistic expression or tool to track the Sun's movements.
The second sign gives the clue as to how the sequence should be read. It could be figurative representations, or could be semantic or syntactic, like geometric figures.
Figurative art is finished now. It's dead!
The figurative arts found it difficult to completely abandon allegory and symbolism - or other such interpretations.
The figurative arts operate in the vicinity of alchemy.
Renee, please, if you could do the research here, you wouldn't be coming to me with your figurative hat and your figurative hand.
Do you prefer figurative or abstract art?
Well, I prefer figurative painting. I know, I know.
This is figurative.
It could be figurative representations, or could be semantic or syntactic, like geometric figures.

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While reconstruction - both literal and figurative - is commencing in some parts of the region, countries like Syria are aflame.

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