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Nonliteral

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adj. Not literal.

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

Word Usage

"After complaints about Bono's comments, the FCC declared that a single, nonliteral use of an expletive, or a "fleeting expletive," could be "actionably indecent.""

Equivalent

metonymical synecdochic poetic tropical metaphoric

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

figurative