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Etymology

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FromMiddle Frenchfiguratif.

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figurative (comparativemorefigurative,superlativemostfigurative)

  1. Of use as ametaphor,simile,metonym or otherfigure of speech, as opposed toliteral; usingfigures.
    • 2005 May 1, “The Sea of Love”, inNew York Times‎[1]:
      The lovers she seems to pursue with herfigurative language in fact retreat under the barrage of similes, metaphors and fables.
    • 2017 May 16, Jerry Stuger, “Kafka and Autism. The Undisclosed Logic Behind Kafka’s Work”, inJournal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, volume47,→DOI, pages2336–2347:
      It is important to emphasize that Kafka as an autistic person was not always consciously aware his interpretations and writings were literal, thus the line between literal andfigurative were not consciously clear for Kafka. This blurring stems from the specific focus of autistic persons who look at external predictable behavior of people and situations rather than at internal mental states of individuals. Kafka wrote from his autistic perspective in which the literal form is a default state of understanding the external world. For Kafka to move beyond the literal is not only to express that which cannot be said literally, but to express that which is not literal. Thefigurative is not simply not the literal, it is more than the literal. It is beyond the literal. The gap between the literal and thefigurative, across which the reader is compelled by language to traverse, is for Kafka also the space which language cannot adequately express. The use of parable by Kafka marks his most concentrated effort to examine the space between language and that which is beyond language.
  2. Metaphorically so called.
  3. With many figures of speech.
  4. Emblematic,symbolic;representative,exemplative
    • 1594–1597,Richard Hooker, edited byJ[ohn] S[penser],Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, […], London: […] Will[iam] Stansby[for Matthew Lownes], published1611,→OCLC,(please specify the page):
      This, they will say, wasfigurative, and served, by God's appointment, but for a time, to shadow out the true glory of a more divine sanctity.
  5. (art) Representing formsrecognisable in life and clearly derived from real object sources, in contrast toabstract art.
    • 1875-1886,John Addington Symonds,Renaissance in Italy
      They belonged to a nation dedicated to thefigurative arts, and they wrote for a public familiar with painted form.

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metaphorical; not literal
metaphorically so called
with many figures of speech
emblematic
art

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French

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figurative

  1. femininesingular offiguratif

German

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figurative

  1. inflection offigurativ:
    1. strong/mixednominative/accusativefemininesingular
    2. strongnominative/accusativeplural
    3. weaknominative all-gendersingular
    4. weakaccusativefeminine/neutersingular

Italian

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figurative

  1. feminineplural offigurativo

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Norwegian Bokmål

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figurative

  1. definitesingular/plural offigurativ

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figurative

  1. definitesingular/plural offigurativ
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