Dictionary Entry
figurative
figurative is a 10-letter English word with 6 senses as adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Representing by a figure, or by resemblance; typical; representative. Face value is 17 in Scrabble and 20 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
10 letters · Scrabble 17 · Words With Friends 20 · 6 senses
Definitions
- 1adjective
Representing by a figure, or by resemblance; typical; representative.
- 2adjective
Used in a sense that is tropical, as a metaphor; not literal; -- applied to words and expressions.
- 3adjective
Abounding in figures of speech; flowery; florid; as, a highly figurative description.
- 4adjective
Relating to the representation of form or figure by drawing, carving, etc. See Figure., 2.
- 5adjective
(used of the meanings of words or text) not literal; using figures of speech
"figurative language"
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- 6adjective
consisting of or forming human or animal figures- Herbert Read
"a figural design"
"the figurative art of the humanistic tradition"
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