Associations to the word «Figurative»
Noun
- Utterance
- Tabernacle
- Drawing
- Eucharist
- Comprehension
- Exhibition
- Optic
- Filtration
- Epithet
- Lan
- Ethyl
- Quran
- Contemporary
- Artwork
- Willem
- Illumination
- Hopper
- Cor
- Evaporation
- Tradition
- Cognition
- Gallery
- Work
- Baroque
- Clarity
- Scripture
- Symbol
- Element
- Composition
- Prophecy
- Kosovo
- Speech
- Katz
- Image
- Plaster
- Context
- Deviation
- Imagination
- Tendency
- Cite
- Modernity
- Linguistic
- Ghana
- Assemblage
- Emphasis
- Noun
- Meta
- Flea
- Testament
- Pronoun
- Depicting
- Genre
- Greenberg
Adjective
Wiktionary
FIGURATIVE, adjective. Metaphorical or tropical, as opposed to literal; using figures; as of the use of "cats and dogs" in the phrase "It's raining cats and dogs".
FIGURATIVE, adjective. Metaphorically so called
FIGURATIVE, adjective. With many figures of speech
FIGURATIVE, adjective. Emblematic; representative
Dictionary definition
FIGURATIVE, adjective. (used of the meanings of words or text) not literal; using figures of speech; "figurative language".
FIGURATIVE, adjective. Consisting of or forming human or animal figures; "a figural design"; "the figurative art of the humanistic tradition"- Herbert Read.
Wise words
A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is
the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color
and content according to the circumstances and time in which
it is used.