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figurative
adjective
(fig-ur-a-tive)
consisting of or forming human or animal figures
Synonyms:
figural
,
Examples:
The figurative art of the humanistic tradition.
figurative
adjective
(fig-ur-a-tive)
(used of the meanings of words or text) not literal; using figures of speech
Synonyms:
nonliteral
,
Antonyms:
literal
,
Examples:
Figurative language.
Words Related to
figurative
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metaphorical
,
metaphoric
,
representational
,
poetic
,
figural
,
nonliteral
,
analogical
,
tropical
,
extended
,
metonymic
,
metonymical
,
synecdochic
,
synecdochical
,
graphic
,
graphical
,
graph
,
fig
,
chart
,
representative
,
literal
,
sculptural
,
painterly
,
allegorical
,
nonrepresentational
,
abstract
,
surrealist
,
impressionistic
,
expressionistic
,
symbolic
,
watercolor
,
performative
,
artistic
,
symbolist
,
surrealistic
,
iconographic
,
symbolical
,
gestural
,
fauvist
,
kyriology
,
calligraphic
,
tralation
,
cubistic
,
hieratic
,
formalist
,
nonobjective
,
zoomorphic
,
silverpoint
,
pointillist
,
suprematist
,
pictographic
,
uncarved
,
grisaille
,
phenomenological
,
collaged
,
stylized
,
denotative
,
scratchboard
,
nonfigurative
,
dead metaphor
,
wordsworthian
,
whimsical
,
quilled
,
imagist
,
geometric
,
artistic movement
,
hieroglyphic
,
figure of speech
,
metaphysical
,
mannerist
,
rhyparography
,
semiotic
,
aleatory
,
plastic art
,
ostensive
,
lyrical
,
encaustic
,
chthonic
,
artful
,
diagrammatic
,
drypoint
,
stylistic
,
liminal
,
sgraffito
,
kabbalistic
,
polychrome
,
postmodernist
,
numinous
,
allusive
,
primitivist
,
polymorphous
,
fetishistic
,
abstract art
,
aphoristic
,
adverbial
,
pictorial
,
masklike
,
pointillistic
,
aquarellist
,
art movement
,
synchronic
,
figurative
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