figurative

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figurative (enc)

Adj.	1.	figurative - (used of the meanings of words or text) not literal; using figures of speech; "figurative language" nonliteral rhetorical - concerned with effect or style of writing and speaking; "a rhetorical question is one asked solely to produce an effect (especially to make an assertion) rather than to elicit a reply" literal - limited to the explicit meaning of a word or text; "a literal translation"
	2.	figurative - consisting of or forming human or animal figures; "a figural design"; "the figurative art of the humanistic tradition"- Herbert Read figural representational - used especially of art; "representational art"; "representational images"

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