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What (who) is figurative - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Figurative (disambiguation)
figurative
1.
If you use a word or expression in a figurative sense, you use it with a more abstract or imaginative meaning than its ordinary literal one.
...an event that will change your route-in both the literal and figurative sense.
? literal
ADJ: usu ADJ n
• figuratively
Europe, with Germany literally and figuratively at its centre, is still at the start of a remarkable transformation.
ADV: ADV with cl/group, ADV with v
2.
Figurative art is a style of art in which people and things are shown in a realistic way.
His career spanned some 50 years and encompassed both abstract and figurative painting.
? abstract
ADJ: usu ADJ n
figurative
¦ adjective
1. departing from a literal use of words; metaphorical.
2. Art representing forms that are recognizably derived from life.
Derivatives
figuratively adverb
figurativeness noun
Figurative
·adj Representing by a figure, or by resemblance; typical; representative.
II. Figurative ·adj Abounding in figures of speech; flowery; florid; as, a highly figurative description.
III. Figurative ·adj Relating to the representation of form or figure by drawing, carving, ·etc. ·see Figure, ·noun, 2.
IV. Figurative ·adj Used in a sense that is tropical, as a metaphor; not literal;
- applied to words and expressions.
Wikipedia
Figurative
Figurative may refer to:
- Figurative analogy, a comparison between things that are not alike but do share some common property
- Figurative art, representational artwork
- Literal and figurative language, a distinction within language analysis
- Neo-figurative art, an expressionist revival art movement
Examples of use of figurative
1. We may note here that this statement is given in a figurative way.
2. The Koran is often assumed to forbid figurative art, but Mr.
3. BETWEEN FRIENDS Like many figures of his generation the figurative and Pop painter R.
4. This concluding section is a literal and figurative return home for both author and reader.
5. In the end, Barrie‘s insistence on everything being figurative rather than "real" is his undoing.