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Definitions for: Figurative
[adj] (used of the meanings of words or text) not literal; using figures of speech; "figurative language"
[adj] consisting of or forming human or animal figures; "a figural design"; "the figurative art of the humanistic tradition"- Herbert Read
Webster (1913) Definition: Fig"ur*a*tive, a. [L. figurativus: cf. F.
figuratif. See Figurative.]
1. Representing by a figure, or by resemblance; typical;
representative.
This, they will say, was figurative, and served, by
God's appointment, but for a time, to shadow out the
true glory of a more divine sanctity. --Hooker.
2. Used in a sense that is tropical, as a metaphor; not
literal; -- applied to words and expressions.
3. Abounding in figures of speech; flowery; florid; as, a
highly figurative description.
4. Relating to the representation of form or figure by
drawing, carving, etc. See Figure, n., 2.
They belonged to a nation dedicated to the
figurative arts, and they wrote for a public
familiar with painted form. --J. A.
Symonds.
Figurative counterpoint or descant. See under Figurate.
-- Fig"ur*a*tive*ly, adv. -- Fig"ur*a*tive*ness, n.
Synonyms: analogical, extended, figural, metaphoric, metaphorical, metonymic, metonymical, nonliteral, poetic, representational, synecdochic, synecdochical, tropical
Antonyms: literal
See Also: rhetorical
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