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adj. Based on or making use of figures of speech; metaphorical: figurative language.

adj. Containing many figures of speech; ornate.

adj. Represented by a figure or resemblance; symbolic or emblematic.

adj. Of or relating to artistic representation by means of animal or human figures.

adj. 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".

adj. Metaphorically so called

adj. With many figures of speech

adj. Emblematic

adj. Representing by a figure, or by resemblance; typical; representative.

adj. Used in a sense that is tropical, as a metaphor; not literal; -- applied to words and expressions.

adj. Abounding in figures of speech; flowery; florid.

adj. Relating to the representation of form or figure by drawing, carving, etc. See Figure, n., 2.

Representing by means of a figure; manifesting or suggesting by resemblance; typical; emblematic.

Of the nature of or involving a figure of rhetoric; used in a metaphorical or tropical sense; metaphorical; not literal.

Abounding with figures of speech; ornate; flowery; florid: as, a description highly figurative.

In music, same as figurate, 3.

In geometry, at infinity.

adj. (used of the meanings of words or text) not literal; using figures of speech

adj. consisting of or forming human or animal figures

"The two main figurative mosaics upon the ambo depict Jonah and the whale, with the one side showing his being swallowed by the whale, and the other, his being released -- Then some of the scribes and Pharisees answered him [Jesus], saying: Master, we would see a sign from thee."

metonymical    synecdochic    poetic    tropical    metaphoric    extended    metonymic    analogical    metaphorical    synecdochical   

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figuratively    figurativeness   

typical    representative    flowery    florid   

metaphorical    allegorical    symbolic    scriptural    mythological    mystical    fanciful    rhetorical    literal    enigmatical