English Dictionary

figurative

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈfɪɡəɹətɪv/

形容詞

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.

日本語の意味

比喩的な表現、つまり直喩や隠喩、換喩などの比喩表現を用いて、文字通りの意味ではなく他の概念やイメージを伝える様子

When she said the city was a jungle, she meant it in a figurative sense to describe its chaos.

彼女が「この街はジャングルだ」と言ったとき、それは混沌を表す比喩的な表現でした。

意味（1）

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.

The lovers she seems to pursue with her figurative language in fact retreat under the barrage of similes, metaphors and fables.

意味（2）

Metaphorically so called.

意味（3）

With many figures of speech.

意味（4）

Emblematic, symbolic; representative, exemplative

This, they will say, was figurative, and served, by God's appointment, but for a time, to shadow out the true glory of a more divine sanctity.

意味（5）

(art) representing forms recognisable in life and clearly derived from real object sources, in contrast to abstract art.

They belonged to a nation dedicated to the figurative arts, and they wrote for a public familiar with painted form.

more figurative （ comparative ）

most figurative （ superlative ）