The property of being figurative.

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.

(manner) In a figurative manner. / Used to indicate that what follows is to be taken as a figure of speech, not literally.

One who figures or calculates.

plural of figuration

Representing by means of a figure; emblematic. / Figurative, not literal. / (mathematics, obsolete) Of numbers, describing a geometrical figure. / (obsolete) Pertaining to a figure, shape.

figuratively, in a figurative manner. / In a figurate manner; Using or forming a figure.

(idiomatic) Alternative form of it figures

(idiomatic, Canada, US) Used to indicate that a preceding event or statement by another is an unsurprising accompaniment of known facts and circumstances.

plural of figurer