Associations to the word «Nonliteral»

Wiktionary

NONLITERAL, adjective. Not literal.

Dictionary definition

NONLITERAL, adjective. (used of the meanings of words or text) not literal; using figures of speech; "figurative language".

Wise words

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky