Usually means: Not literal; metaphorical or symbolic.
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General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. figurative: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  2. figurative: Collins English Dictionary
  3. figurative: Vocabulary.com
  4. Figurative, figurative: Wordnik
  5. figurative: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. figurative: Wiktionary
  7. figurative: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. figurative: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. figurative: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. figurative: Dictionary.com
  11. figurative: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  12. Figurative: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Figurative: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. figurative: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. figurative: Rhymezone
  16. figurative: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. figurative: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. figurative: Free Dictionary
  19. figurative: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. figurative: Dictionary/thesaurus
  21. figurative: Merriam-Webster.com
  22. figurative: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. figurative: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. figurative: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. figurative: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Of use as a metaphor, simile, metonym or other figure of speech, as opposed to literal; using figures; as when saying that someone who eats more than they should is a pig or like a pig.
adjective:  Metaphorically so called.
adjective:  With many figures of speech.
adjective:  Emblematic, symbolic; representative, exemplative
adjective:  (art) Representing forms recognisable in life and clearly derived from real object sources, in contrast to abstract art.

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